Literary Arts: FY 2025 Grants Panelists

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel A
August 7, 2024

Lillian Dabney (Layperson)
Adult Services Librarian
Seattle Athenaeum
Seattle, WA

Joe Milan, Jr.
Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Hollins University
Roanoke, VA

Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Professor of English
Kennesaw State University
Decatur, GA

L.J. Sysko
Director of Executive Communications
Office of the President
Delaware State University
Wilmington, DE

Alex Wolfe 
Editorial and Production Director
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pittsburgh, PA

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel B
August 8, 2024

Frances Cannon
Science and Nature Writing Fellow
Kenyon College
Burlington, VT

Diana Di Stefano (Layperson)
Publications Manager
Montana Historical Society
Helena, MT

Michelle Malonzo
Co-Executive Director
Word, A Storytelling Sanctuary, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ

James McNulty
Founder and Managing Fiction Editor
Driftwood Press
Austin, TX

Urayoán Noel
Associate Professor of English and Spanish
New York University
Bronx, NY

Grants for Arts Projects I - Panel C
August 8, 2024

Joël Díaz
Director of Programs
The Clifton House
Baltimore, MD

Matthew Dickman
Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry
University of Oregon
Portland, OR

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
Bookseller, da Shop: books + curiosities
Affiliate Faculty in Fiction
Antioch University Los Angeles
Honolulu, HI

Cason Lynley (Layperson)
Director of Marketing, Sales, and Finance
Duke University Press
Hillsborough, NC

Janet McAdams
Writer
Norris, TN

Literature Fellowships: Poetry Panel
September 10, 2024

Rodney Gomez
Writer
McAllen, TX

Shane Alan McCrae
Assistant Professor
Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY

Diana K. Nguyen
Assistant Professor
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

Kathryn Nuernberger
Associate Professor
Program Director of Creative Writing
Department of English
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Saint Paul, MN

Matthew Scott Olzmann
Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Creative Writing
Dartmouth College
White River Junction, VT

Tim Singleton (Layperson)
Communications Specialist
Project Manager
Jean Moon & Associates
Columbia, MD

Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects - Panel A
August 14, 2024

Baba Badji
Professor
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Highland Park, NJ

Layla Benitez-James
Editor
Apartamento Magazine
Austin, TX

David Culhane (Layperson)
Bookseller
Shakespeare & Co.
Missoula, MT

James Shea
Associate Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong

Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects - Panel B
August 15, 2024

Neil Blackadder
Translator
Glenford, NY

Lucia Kalathil (Layperson)
Retired
San Luis Obispo, CA

Aruni Kashyap
Associate Professor & Director of Creative Writing Program
Department of English
University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Roman Kostovski
Founder
Plames Press, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD

Robin E. Myers
Translator
Randolph, VT