2022 Recipients
2022 Recipients
Carey Baraka
Carey Baraka writes fiction and nonfiction. His writing has appeared in Guardian Longreads, Drift Magazine, Serious Eats, Foreign Policy, and The Common, among other places. He sings for a secret choir in Nairobi.
Alex Blasdel
Alex Blasdel is a regular contributor to the Guardian long read whose profiles, reportage, and criticism have also appeared in the Guardian review, TLS, Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Joshua Craze
Joshua Craze is working on a book for Fitzcarraldo Editions about war, bureaucracy, and lies in South Sudan. He writes about art, literature, and contemporary politics for n+1, the Guardian, The Baffler, and Foreign Policy, amongst other publications. With Jenny Holzer, Craze made a book-box about redacted documents from the war on terror, Belligerent. He spent a decade working in South Sudan as a conflict researcher.
Joshua Clark Davis
Joshua Clark Davis is a historian at the University of Baltimore. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, and The Washington Post. His next book, Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Atul Dev
Atul Dev is a journalist from India. His stories have appeared in the New York Review of Books, The Atlantic and The Caravan, where he worked as a staff writer for six years. He is a research scholar at Columbia Journalism School, based in New York.
Emily Dufton
Emily Dufton is a writer, drug historian, and the author of Grass Roots: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Marijuana in America (Basic Books, 2017). She received her PhD in American Studies from George Washington University. Her new project, Addiction, Inc., also received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award in 2021.
Walt Hunter
Walt Hunter is the author of Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization. A book of poems, Some Flowers, is forthcoming this year. He is the recipient of a James Merrill House Residency, a South Carolina Arts Commission Fellowship, and an NEH/Teagle Foundation grant. He teaches English at Case Western Reserve University.
Stephen F. Kearse
Stephen Kearse is an editor at Spotlight PA and a contributing writer for The Nation. His reporting and criticism have been published in The New York Times Magazine, Pitchfork, The Atlantic, and GQ, among other outlets.
Christian Lorentzen
Christian Lorentzen is a critic whose work appears regularly in the London Review of Books, Harper’s Magazine, and Bookforum.
Lauren Markham
Laura Marris
Laura Marris is a writer and translator. She is working on her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, which is forthcoming from Graywolf. Her work has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship and shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. She lives in Buffalo.
Rachel Riederer
Rachel Riederer is a writer focusing on the intersection of science, environment, and culture. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Nation, among others.
Damion Searls
Damion Searls has translated fifty books, including many modern classics and Nobel Prize winners. He has received Guggenheim and Cullman Center Fellowships, numerous translation prizes, and the Federal Order of Merit from the German government. His own writing includes a book of short stories and the first biography of Hermann Rorschach, creator of the Rorschach test.
Urmila Seshagiri
Urmila Seshagiri is Lindsay Young Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of Race and the Modernist Imagination and the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Her scholarship and essays appear in numerous academic journals as well as in LARB: Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books. She is preparing the first scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf’s memoir, Sketch of the Past, to be published by Cornell University Press.
Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin is a historian and media theorist who works as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University. She is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (2021) and is the founding editor of Parapraxis, a new popular magazine of psychoanalysis, and the co-director of The Psychosocial Foundation.