On April 4th, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the recipients of its 2018 fellowships—173 in all, awarded to scholars, artists and scientists in a variety of fields, from law to filmmaking to engineering, “who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” 23 of those fellowships went to creative writers working in nonfiction, fiction and poetry. The 2018 literary Guggenheim fellows are:

General Nonfiction:

Nicholson Baker

Teju Cole

Robert Finch

Roxane Gay

Jane Kamensky

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Lily Tuck

Poetry:

Reginald Dwayne Betts

Amy Gerstler

Tyehimba Jess

Ilya Kaminsky

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Dunya Mikhail

Srikanth Reddy

Anya Krugovoy Silver

Monica Youn

Fiction:

Rachel Cusk

Andrew Greer

Lauren Groff

Jennifer Haigh

Min Jin Lee

China Miéville

Deb Olin Unferth