2023 Recipients
2023 Recipients
Benjamin Balint
Benjamin Balint is the author of Kafka’s Last Trial, which was awarded the 2020 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and of Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History (2023). He lives in Jerusalem.
Edna Bonhomme
Edna Bonhomme is a historian of science and culture writer based in Berlin, Germany. Her writing explores how people navigate the unsavory and unwieldy states of health such as contagious outbreaksand reproductive justice and has appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and other publications. Edna is a co-editor of the anthology, After Sex, which will be published in November 2022. Her second book, A History of the World in Six Plagues is forthcoming with Simon & Schuster. She received her PhD in History of Science from Princeton University.
Caitlin L. Chandler
Caitlin L. Chandler is a writer and journalist based in Berlin. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Washington Post Magazine, The New York Review of Books, Guernica, The Dial, The Guardian and other outlets. She is the recipient of an International Women’s Media Foundation fellowship and an Investigative Journalism for Europe cross-border grant.
Jaime Chu
Jaime Chu is a critic currently based in Hong Kong. She was a contributing editor for Spike Art Magazine and her work has appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, and ArtAsiaPacific, among others. She co-founded the experimental newsletter Chaoyang Trap.
Holly Haworth
Holly Haworth is an essayist and reporter who writes at the intersection of ecology, history, science, spirituality, technology, and culture. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Literary Hub, Lapham’s Quarterly, Oxford American, the On Being radio program blog, and elsewhere. They have been included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and listed as notable in The Best American Travel Writing.
Harmony Holiday
Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, filmmaker and the author of 5 collections of poetry including Hollywood Forever (2017) and Maafa (2022). She curates a standing archive space for jazz and griot poetics and a related performance and events series at LA’s music venue 2220arts. Her writing has appeared in LA Times’s Image Magazine, 4Columns, Bookforum, among other publications. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, a research fellowship from Harvard, and a teaching fellowship from UC Berkeley. She’s currently working on a collection of essays for Duke University Press, a biography of Abbey Lincoln, and a memoir, in addition to other writing, film, and curatorial projects. Her first solo exhibition for The Kitchen opens in spring, 2024.
Evan Kindley
Evan Kindley is an associate editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the author of two books, Questionnaire (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture (Harvard University Press, 2017) and the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Essay (Cambridge University Press, 2022). His writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, n+1, and many other publications.
Bruce Krajewski
Bruce Krajewski is translator and editor of Salomo Friedlaender’s Kant for Children (forthcoming in 2024 from De Gruyter). He was the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship from the University of Chicago and co-winner of the Scaglione Prize for Translation from the Modern Language Association. His work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books and Literary Hub.
Molly O’Toole
Molly O’Toole is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, working on “The Route,” a nonfiction book on global migration through the Americas, for Penguin Random House. She recently was an immigration and security reporter for The Los Angeles Times, as well as a fellow at George Washington University and Cornell University. From Latin America to South Asia, O’Toole has written for outlets such as Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the Associated Press. She was awarded the first-ever Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting in 2020 with This American Life and Emily Green. Her work has also been recognized by the Livingston Awards and the National Press Club, among others.
Kristen Radtke
Kristen Radtke is the author of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness (2021) and Imagine Wanting Only This (2017). She is the creative director of The Verge. The recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant, her work has been nominated for a PEN/Jean Stein Award, an Eisner Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Metal, and numerous National Magazine Awards. Her comics and writing have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Marie Claire, The Atlantic, Elle, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and many other places.
Scott Sayare
Scott Sayare is a journalist whose work appears in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Guardian Long Read, and New York, among other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Adam Shatz
Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a long-standing contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of a collection of essays, Writers and Missionaries, and the host of a podcast, Myself with Others. His book The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in January 2024.
Christine Smallwood
Christine Smallwood is the author of the novel The Life of the Mind, which Time magazine named one of the top ten fiction books of 2021. Her reviews, essays, and profiles have been published in Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. She received her PhD in English from Columbia University.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens
Jessi Jezewska Stevens is a novelist and essayist who writes about climate, literature, and political economy. She is the author of the novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q (a NYT Editors’ Choice) and The Visitors, as well as the forthcoming story collection Ghost Pains, out with And Other Stories in March 2024. Her work has appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Nation, The Paris Review, The New Yorker online, Harper’s, 4Columns, The Dial, and elsewhere, and has received support from the German-American Fulbright Commission. She lives with her partner in Geneva, Switzerland.
Caroline Tracey
Caroline Tracey is a journalist and writer whose work focuses on the Southwestern U.S., Mexico, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Her work appears in The New Yorker, n+1, the Nation, High Country News, and in Spanish in Nexos. She has been a recipient of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and a Fulbright fellowship, among other awards. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley.