People

Current & Past Fellows

Current Princeton Arts Fellows

Current Hodder Fellows

Recent Fellows

Director of Fellowships

Assistant Director of Fellowships

Fellowships Program Associate

Past Princeton Arts Fellows

2021-23

Interdisciplinary tap dance artist Michael J. Love
Filmmaker/visual artist Tiona Nekkia McClodden
Comedian, actress and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid

2020-22

Theater director Will Davis
Writer Danez Smith

2019-21

Writer/oral historian Nyssa Chow
Interdisciplinary artist Ani Liu
Choreographer Netta Yerushalmy

2018-20

Composer/lyricist César Alvarez
Sound artist/musician Jess Rowland

2017-19

Lighting/projection designer David Bengali
Performance artist Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Writer Erika L. Sánchez

2016-18

Composer Shawn Jaeger
Filmmaker Afia Serena Nathaniel
Writer Rebekah Rutkoff

2015-17

Documentary filmmaker Pacho Velez
Choreographer/director Pavel Zuštiak

2014-16

Playwright Aaron Landsman
Writer Hanna Pylväinen

2013-15

Graphic designer Danielle Aubert
Percussionist Jason Treuting

 

Past Hodder Fellows

2022-23

2021-22

2020-21

Learn more about 20-21 Fellows in an article in Princeton Magazine »

2019-20

2018-19

2017-18

2016-17

2015-16

2014-15

2013-14*

  • Chinonye Chukwu, Filmmaker
  • Katy E. Didden, Poet
  • Adam Ross, Writer
  • Pam Tanowitz, Choreographer

*Starting with the 2013-14 Hodder Fellowship cycle, artists other than writers were eligible to apply/receive fellowships.

2012-13

  • James Arthur, Poet
  • Yasmine El Rashidi, Writer
  • Melinda Moustakis, Fiction Writer
  • A. Rey Pamatmat, Playwright

2011-12

  • Anthony Carelli, Poet
  • Danai Gurira, Playwright

2010-11

  • Cynthia Cruz, Poet
  • ZZ Packer, Fiction Writer
  • EM Lewis, Playwright

2009-10

  • Michael Dickman, Poet
  • Zachary Lazar, Fiction Writer
  • Jordan Harrison, Playwright

2008-09

  • Christian Barter, Poet
  • Tarell Alvin McCraney, Playwright
  • Whitney Terrell, Fiction Writer

2007-08

  • Monique Truong, Fiction Writer
  • Kathleen Graber, Poet
  • J. Michael Friedman, Composer and Lyricist

2006-07

  • Gabe Hudson, Fiction Writer
  • Dan O’Brien, Playwright and Poet
  • David Orr, Critic/Poetry Reviewer

2005-06

  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Fiction Writer
  • Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Writer
  • Will Eno, Playwright

2004-05

  • Daisy Fried, Poet
  • Adam Kirsch, Poet

2003-04

  • Anthony Doerr, Fiction Writer
  • Sarah Manguso, Poet

2002-03

  • Andrea Ashworth, Prose Writer
  • Marlys West, Poet

2001-02

  • Craig Arnold, Poet
  • Veronica Chambers, Fiction Writer

2000-01

  • Karen Hartman, Playwright
  • Greg Hrbeck, Fiction Writer

1999-2000

  • Mary Jo Bang, Poet
  • Lan Samantha Chang, Fiction Writer

1998-99

  • Sharona Ben-Tov, Poet
  • Naomi Iizuka, Playwright

1997-98

W. David Hancock, Playwright

1996-97

Susan Power, Novelist

1995-96

Khaled Mattawa, Poet

1994-95

Mark Levine, Poet

1993-94

Doug Wright, Playwright

1992-93

Cristina Garcia, Journalist/Novelist

1991-92

Red Hawk, Poet

1990-91

Joanna Szczesna, Journalist

1989-90

Andrew Hudgins, Poet

1988-89

Jane Shore, Poet

1987-88

Mona Simpson, Novelist

1986-87

Tama Janowitz, Novelist

1985-86

Stephen Wright, Novelist

1984-85

Ewa Kuryluk, Artist

1983-84

Darryl Pinckney, Novelist

1982-83

Angeline Goreau, Biographer/Novelist

1981-82

Judish Hemschemeyer, Poet/Translator

1980-81

Howard Norman, Novelist/Translator

1979-80

Phyllis Janowitz, Poet

1978-79

Richard McKane, Poet/Translator

1977-78

Christine Gordon Owen, Short Story Writer

1975-76

Peter Conrad, Literary Critic

1974-75

Eugene Eoyang, Sinologist

1973-74

William Mullen, Classicist

1972-73

Alessandra Comini, Art Historian

1970-71

James Magnuson, Playwright

1971

George McCulley, Historian

1970

Jay Wright, Poet/Playwright

1969

Paul Oppenheimer, Poet/Writer

1969

John Eaton, Musician/Composer

1968

William S. Pechter, Film Critic

1967

Robert Erwin, Political Scientist

1965

Kenneth Frampton, Architect

1963

Richard Schmitt, Philosopher

1962

Hans Staub, Literary Critic

1961

James H. Billington, Russian Historian

1960

Frederick Olafson, Philosopher

1959

Walter Clemons Jr., Writer

1958

John Arthur Hanson, Classicist

1957

Joseph Kerman, Musicologist

1955

Peter J. Gay, Political Scientist

1954

Richard T. Burgi, Slavicist

1952

Richard W.B. Lewis, Writer

1950

John Berryman, Poet

1948

Joseph C. Sloane, Jr., Art Historian

1946

William Aydelotte, Historian

1944

Richard P. Blackmur, Critic

Questions?

For more information about fellowships at the Lewis Center for the Arts, please contact lca-fellowships@princeton.edu.