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!)