• The Hub

    News, Notes, Talk

    Here are all the new Guggenheim fellows in the literary arts.

    Brittany Allen
    By 
    April 15, 2025, 11:32am

    Today the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its annual class of fellows.

    This year’s “distinguished individuals” include 198 authors, scholars, and artists working across 53 disciplines. Chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 3,500 applicants, the class of 2025 is recognized for both “prior career achievement and exceptional promise.” All fellows receive an unrestricted cash grant ranging roughly between 40k-50k to support their ongoing projects.

    In its 100 years of doing business, the Guggenheim has distributed over $400 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals, “among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors.”

    To acknowledge the program’s centennial, special gifts from friends and previous fellows underwrote additional projects this year. So writers have a little extra to celebrate.

    Speaking of? Here are all the fellows recognized in the literary arts.

    Biography

    Gregg Hecimovich

    Drama & Performance Art

    Abigail S. Browde

    Erik Ehn

    Lars Jan

    Rubén Polendo

    Michael S. Silverstone

    Fiction

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Marie-Helene Bertino

    Sheila Heti

    Tania Rachel James

    Miranda July

    Katie Kitamura

    Nicole Krauss

    Jonathan Lethem

    Christine Smallwood

    Nell Zink

    General Nonfiction

    Louis Onuorah Chude-Sokei

    Sloane Crosley

    Carolyn Dever

    Harold Holzer

    Kerry Howley

    Andrew Seth Meier

    Kristen Radtke

    Nathaniel Rich

    Rachel Shteir

    Michael Joseph Tisserand

    Intellectual & Cultural History

    Laura D. Beers

    Marcia Chatelain

    Quinn Slobodian

    Literary Criticism

    Jonathan Bate

    Rhodri Lewis

    Poetry

    Dan Albergotti

    Matthew Cooperman

    Cynthia Cruz

    francine j. harris

    Richie Hofmann

    Jessica Jacobs

    Mihaela Diana Moscaliuc

    Brandon D. Som

    Corey Van Landingham

    David Dalton Yezzi

    Translation

    Paul Reitter

    You can find the full list of fellows—including the many peerless academics, researchers, scientists, musicians, filmmakers, and fine artists who fall out of our jurisdiction—here.

    Congratulations, Gugs! (And happy birthday, GF!)

    award announcement awards biography fellowships Fiction Guggenheim fellows literary criticism poetry translation

    • We Need Your Help:

    Become a Lit Hub Supporting Member

    Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall. But our future relies on you. In return for your contribution, you'll get an ad-free site experience, editors' picks, and our Joan Didion tote bag. Most importantly, you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving.