Announcing the Twelve Finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships

The Poetry Foundation is thrilled to announce the 12 finalists for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.

Thank you to all who submitted applications and shared their work this year. 

The five Fellowship recipients will be announced in September. The seven 2022 finalists who don’t receive Fellowships will receive $4,430.

2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship Finalists

Gabrielle Bates
Tianna Bratcher
Tarik Dobbs
Diamond Forde
torrin a. greathouse
Ae Hee Lee
Tariq Luthun
Peter Mason
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Troy Osaki
Alan Pelaez Lopez
Julian Randall

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Information on the 2022 Decision Process

This year, each application was first read by two of 28 members of an external readers pool. A group of five external judges then read all of the top-scoring applications to select this group of 12 finalists. 

Questions and comments about the Fellowships can be directed to [email protected].