April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Rita Bullwinkel, Fiction By Rita Bullwinkel Rita Bullwinkel. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House, The White Review, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an editor at large of McSweeney’s and a contributing editor of NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Anaïs Duplan, Nonfiction By Anaïs Duplan Anaïs Duplan. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of the newly released book I Need Music; a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture; a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion; and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus. He has taught poetry at the New School, Bennington College, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College. As an independent curator, he has facilitated curatorial projects in Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017–2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem, and in 2021 received a Marian Goodman fellowship from Independent Curators International for his research on Black experimental documentary. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Claire Schwartz, Poetry By Claire Schwartz Claire Schwartz. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Claire Schwartz is the author of the poetry collection Civil Service, forthcoming from Graywolf, and the culture editor of Jewish Currents. Claire’s writing has appeared in The Believer, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. From 2018 to 2020, she wrote a column for The Paris Review called Poetry RX, with Kaveh Akbar and Sarah Kay. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and Yale’s Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize, and received her PhD from Yale University. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nonfiction By Alexis Pauline Gumbs Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Photograph by Sukia Ikbal Doucet. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals; Dub: Finding Ceremony; M Archive: After the End of the World; and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, and is the coeditor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. Her writing has appeared in publications including Make/Shift, Left Turn, The Abolitionist, and Ms. Magazine. She holds a PhD in English, African and African American Studies, and Women and Gender Studies from Duke University and is the cofounder of Black Feminist Film School, an initiative to screen, study, and produce films with a Black feminist ethic. In 2020, she was awarded the National Humanities Center Fellowship for her book in progress, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Claire Boyles, Fiction By Claire Boyles Claire Boyles. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Claire Boyles is a writer, teacher, and former sustainable farmer whose collection of stories, Site Fidelity, has been longlisted for the 2022 PEN America/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, and Boulevard, among others. She lives in Loveland, Colorado. Read More