Literature: FY 2006 Grants Panelists

Access To Artistic Excellence #2
Dec. 7-9, 2005

Kurt Andersen
Writer, Editor
Radio Host, Studio 360
Journalist, New York Magazine
New York, NY

Naomi Ayala
Poet, Educator
Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Public Library
Washington, DC

Alan Cordle (Layperson)
Librarian
Portland Community College
Portland, OR

Meg Kearney
Poet, Educator
Director, Solstice Creative Writing Program
Pine Manor College
New Ipswich, NH

Malcolm Margolin
Publisher, Editor
Heyday Books
Berkeley, CA

Debora Ott
Writer, Editor
Director, LitTap
Atlanta, GA

Geeta Sharma-Jensen
Editor, Fiction Writer
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Franksville, WI

Access to Artistic Excellence #1, Panel A
August 3-5, 2005

W. Paul Coates
Publisher
Black Classic Press
Baltimore, MD

Stephen C. Enniss (Layperson)
Director, Special Collections
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

R.S. Gwynn
Poet, Professor
Lamar University
Beaumont, TX

Pearl Kilbride
Publisher, Editor
Ruminator
St. Paul, MN

Sally Kim
Book Editor, Shaye Areheart Books
The Crown Publishing Group
Random House, Inc.
New York, NY

Michael Palma
Translator, Poet, Editor
Bellows Falls, VT

Peter Stine
Essayist, Poet, Fiction Writer
Editor, Witness
Ann Arbor, MI

Rebecca Wolff
Poet, Publisher
Editor, Fence
Boise, ID

Access To Artistic Excellence #1, Panel B
August 5, 2005

W. Paul Coates
Publisher
Black Classic Press
Baltimore, MD

Stephen C. Enniss (Layperson)
Director, Special Collections
Robert W. Woodruff Library
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Pearl Kilbride
Publisher
Ruminator
St. Paul, MN

Sally Kim
Book Editor, Shaye Areheart Books
The Crown Publishing Group
Random House, Inc.
New York, NY

Michael Palma
Translator, Poet, Editor
Bellows Falls, VT

Peter Stine
Editor
Witness
Ann Arbor, MI

Creative Writing Fellowships in Prose
September 14-16, 2005

Peter S. Beagle
Writer, Editor, Journalist
Oakland, CA

John Crowley
Writer, Editor, Educator
Professor of English
Yale University
Conway, MA

Tom Depietro (Layperson)
Retired Book Critic, Essayist
Scarsdale, NY

Jonathan Franzen
Writer
New York, NY

Michelle Fyfe (Layperson)
High School English Teacher
Kentwood High School
Seattle, WA

Kaye Gibbons
Writer
Raleigh, NC

Elinor Lipman
Writer, Educator
Florence, MA

Reginald McKnight
Writer, Educator
Hamilton Holmes Professor of English
University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Howard Norman
Writer, Translator, Educator
University of Maryland
Washington, DC

Susan Power
Writer
St. Paul, MN

Marilynne Robinson
Writer, Educator
University of Iowa Writers Workshop
Iowa City, IA

Luis Alberto Urrea
Writer, Educator
University of Illinois at Chicago
Naperville, IL

Literature Fellowships - Translation
May 16, 2005

Esther Allen
Translator
Assistant Professor, Modern Languages
Seton Hall University
New York, NY

Judith Baumel
Poet, Translator
Associate Professor of English
Director, Creative Writing
Adelphi University
Bronx, NY

Michael Henry Heim
Translator
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Robert Royal
Scholar, Commentator
President, Faith & Reason Institute
Washington, DC

Diane Thiel
Poet, Prose Writer
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
University of New Mexico
Placitas, NM

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506