Santa Fe, NM – Graywolf Press is delighted to announce that Katie Ford has been selected to receive a $100,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship.
The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 to honor both established and emerging writers whose work is of exceptional quality. Over the last 20 years, Lannan Foundation, through its Awards and Fellowships program, has awarded 176 writers and poets nearly $14 million. Lannan Literary Awards recognize writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature. Lannan Literary Fellowships recognize writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work. Lannan Notable Book Awards recognize significant works of literary or scholarly merit which are derived from and speak to the political, social, cultural, or economic realities of the day. Lannan Writing Residency Fellowships are offered to writers across disciplines who wish to work on a specific project for a concentrated time.

Candidates for the Awards and Fellowships are recommended to the Foundation by a network of poets, writers, literary scholars, publishers, and editors. Nominators are geographically dispersed and serve anonymously. The final determination of recipients is made by the Foundation’s Literary Committee. The Foundation does not accept applications or nominations for Literary Awards or Fellowships.

Through its Literary Awards and Fellowships program, the Foundation hopes to stimulate the creation of literature written originally in the English language and to develop a wider audience for contemporary prose and poetry. Additional Foundation literary activities include grants to nonprofit organizations and the public literary reading series, Readings & Conversations.

Lannan Foundation is dedicated to cultural freedom, creativity, and diversity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers as well as inspired native activists in rural indigenous communities, and those organizations and individuals working for cultural and human rights and economic and environmental justice.

For further information please visit www.lannan.org.