Six of this year's 25 MacArthur "genius grant" winners are writers or storytellers

Six of this year's 25 MacArthur "genius grant" winners are writers or storytellers

Oct 04 2018

Among the 25 winners of the 2018 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowships (widely referred to as the "genius grants," which come with a no-strings-attached award of $625,000) are at least six people who are writers or story-tellers:

• Natalie Diaz, 40, a poet who teaches at Arizona State University.
• John Keene, 53, a writer in the Department of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University.
• Kelly Link, 49, a fiction writer in Northampton, Mass.
• Dominique Morisseau, 40, a playwright at Signature Theatre in New York City.
• Ken Ward Jr., 50, an investigative journalist with the Charleston Gazette-Mail.M
• Raj Jayadev, 43, a community organizer and co-founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a story-telling, community organizing, and advocacy organization.

More News Stories