Announcing this year’s class of PERIPLUS fellows.
The PERIPLUS fellowship, a program for writers that are Black, Indigenous and people of color, is announcing its second class of fellows. This year, the PERIPLUS collective awarded the fellowship to 59 writers, who met with mentors every month to receive feedback on their work and the publishing industry. These fellows were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants; you can see the full list below and read their bios here.
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Candria Slamin will be working with Randall Mann.
Camille Bacon will be working with Jason Parham.
Bola Chinelo will be working with Omotara James.
Nina Yun will be working with E. Alex Jung.
Julio César Villegas will be working with Ricardo Maldonado.
Vina Vo will be working with Steph Cha.
Roman Garcia will be working with Zeyn Joukhadar.
Hilal Isler will be working with Dina Nayeri.
George Sanchez-Tello will be working with Bryan Washington.
Savanna Hunter-Reeves will be working with C Pam Zhang.
Bo Hwang will be working with Lan Samantha Chang.
N.S. Ahmed will be working with Laura van den Berg
A.M. Rosales will be working with Roberto Lovato.
Sara Tewelde will be working with Naima Coster.
Nailah Mathews will be working with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Nina Dewi Toft Djanegara will be working with Azmat Khan.
Susan Kikuchi will be working with Mimi Lok.
jonah wu will be working with Gene Kwak.
Raphael Jenkins will be working with Gregory Pardlo.
Shaimerdan Salam will be working with Ben Mauk.
Taylor Lena McTootle will be working with Adam Harris.
Kristin Kehl 宁福思 will be working with Adrienne Raphel.
mercy eltu will be working with Jennine Capo Crucet.
Ebony Haight will be working with Nicole Chung.
Maryam Ahmad will be working with Nicholas Casey.
Zara Jamshed will be working with Andrea Abi-Karam.
Jaime Sandoval will be working with Kirsten Valdez Quade.
Jesús Rodríguez will be working with Jonathan Blitzer.
Erica Rawles will be working with Oscar Villalon.
Elina Zhang will be working with Lauren Markham.
tae min suh will be working with Mary-Kim Arnold.
Aiesha Muhammad will be working with Yona Harvey.
Randy William Santiago will be working with Libby Flores.
Johan Alexander Fenney will be working with Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
aureleo sans will be working with Daniel Pena.
Brandon J. Choi will be working with RO Kwon.
.chisaraokwu. will be working with Kemi Alabi.
Sonia Paul will be working with Aurora Almendral.
Sloan Asakura will be working with Wendy C. Ortiz.
Giovannai Rosa will be working with Kiese Laymon.
Amy Zhang will be working with Rachel Khong.
Sheena Raza Faisal will be working with Vauhini Vara.
Sagnik Gayen will be working with Shruti Swamy.
Camille Wanliss will be working with Morgan Jerkins.
Gabrielle Cohen will be working with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich.
Laili Gohartaj will be working with Jenna Wortham.
Denny will be working with Arabelle Sicardi.
Noor Al-Samarrai will be working with Tracy Fuad.
Leo D. Martinez will be working with Cleyvis Natera.
Johnny Nguyen Duong will be working with Maceo Montoya.
Sarah Rohani Drepaul will be working with Jenny Sadre-Orafai.
Kathleen Anaza will be working with Alexis Okeowo.
Hubert Adjei-Kontoh will be working with Marcus Burke.
Arielle K. Jones will be working with Deesha Philyaw.
J.C. Rodriguez will be working with Eduardo Corral.
Guneez Ibrahim will be working with Rumaan Alam.
Andrea V. Duarte-Alonso will be working with Tina Griego.
Nevarez Encinias will be working with Carina del Valle Schorske.
Jihae will be working with Hilary Leichter.
