10 writers awarded Stegner Fellowships
Five poets and five fiction writers have been awarded the 2009-10 Stanford Creative Writing Program's Wallace Stegner Fellowships. This year's writers were chosen from a pool of almost 1,600 applicants.
The two-year fellowship program, named after novelist and Creative Writing Program founder Wallace Stegner, covers tuition and health insurance and provides each of the fellows with a $26,000-per-year stipend. The new fellows will start at Stanford in the autumn.
Poetry fellowsJoshua Edwards, born in Galveston, Texas, is now living in Shanghai. He plans to write more poems for a collection encompassing his years in China and Mexico. He received a Fulbright Grant to work in Oaxaca, Mexico, and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan.
Erica Ehrenberg, a graduate of Amherst College and the poetry MFA program at New York University, was recently a poetry fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass. Her poems have appeared in several reviews and anthologies.
Keetje Kuipers, who received her MFA in creative writing in poetry from the University of Oregon, has published in quarterlies and literary reviews.
Brittany Perham, who holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, won the Academy of American Poets Prize in 2002 and 2003.
Matthew Siegel, born in New York City, earned an MFA from the University of Houston. He plans to complete a poetry manuscript as a Stegner Fellow.
Fiction fellowsJennifer DuBois will complete an MFA this June from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop; she holds a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy from Tufts University. As a Stegner Fellow, she will polish her novel and collection of short stories.
Jon Hickey completed an MFA in fiction at Cornell University in 2006. He is working on a novel about Indian gaming and its effects on the traditions and politics of an Indian reservation in Wisconsin.
Ryan McIlvain will complete an MFA in fiction from Rutgers-Newark before arriving at Stanford this September. He plans to work on a novel. One chapter appeared as a short story in the Paris Review.
Kirstin Quade is working on a collection of stories, as well as a novel. She has spent the past two years at the University of Oregon completing an MFA in fiction.
Maggie Shipstead completed an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop last year and is working on her first novel.
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