Bard Writer in Residence Dawn Lundy Martin is Named a 2022 United States Artists Fellow and Receives $50,000 Award
Distinguished Writer in Residence Dawn Lundy Martin has been selected as one of 63 artists to receive a 2022 United States Artists (USA) Fellowship. Each year, individual artists and collaboratives are anonymously nominated to apply by a geographically diverse and rotating group of artists, scholars, critics, producers, curators, and other arts professionals. USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing the most compelling artists working and living in the United States, in all disciplines, at every stage of their career.
Martin is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. They are the author of several books and chapbooks, including A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007); Discipline (Nightboat Books, 2011), a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize; and Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life (Nightboat, 2015), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. Their latest collection, Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House Press), won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2019.
Bard MFA candidate Marty Two Bulls Jr. is also a 2022 USA Fellow.
Post Date: 05-24-2022
Martin is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. They are the author of several books and chapbooks, including A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007); Discipline (Nightboat Books, 2011), a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize; and Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life (Nightboat, 2015), winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. Their latest collection, Good Stock Strange Blood (Coffee House Press), won the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2019.
Bard MFA candidate Marty Two Bulls Jr. is also a 2022 USA Fellow.
Post Date: 05-24-2022