Writing Fellowship

is a writer and translator from Malaysia. His work has been featured on the podcast KITA!, and published in adda, Guernica, and Strange Horizons. His translations have appeared in Mantis and Nashville Review. He is the poetry editor for NutMag, a zine based in Penang.

was an editor for several years at a theology journal and is now a fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has appeared in Image, Prairie Schooner, and the Rumpus. He lives outside Iowa City.

has worked in Japan as a coordinator for international relations and as the lead writer for National Geographic’s Expedition: Earth podcast series, and his work has been published in National Geographic Learning. He lives in California.

was a 2022 Writing Fellow. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received the Truman Capote Fellowship, and Sam Houston State University. At the time of her fellowship, her work had appeared in Oxford American.

was a 2022 Writing Fellow. She completed her MFA at Cornell University. At the time of her fellowship, her work had appeared in Narrative, Triangle House Review, and elsewhere.

was a 2022 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, her work had appeared in California Quarterly, the Southwest Review, Sacred Journey, and Plainsong.

was a 2021 Writing Fellow. At the time of his fellowship, he had written two unpublished novels in Spanish and was at work translating them into English. Previously, he'd had a career as a journalist in Mexico City.

was a 2021 Writing Fellow. Her piece for the fellowship explored collective memory in the Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago through photography, video, and text.

was a 2021 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, her work had appeared in Electric Literature, No Tokens, Anomaly, and Wigleaf. Her debut collection, I Meant It Once, will be published in 2023 by Algonquin.

Read her Fellowship story, "We'll Be Alone," in A Public Space. No. 31

was a 2020 Writing Fellow. Previously unpublished at the time of her fellowship, she worked as a content producer for TED Talks and had previously received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct oral histories with the speakers of the endangered Mayan language Tojolabal in Mexico.

Read her Fellowship story, "Smoking Cigarettes in West Texas," in A Public Space. No. 30

was a 2020 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, her work had appeared in the Nation, the Outline, and Popula.

Read her Fellowship story, "Nina and the Lime," in A Public Space No. 30

was a 2020 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, she had worked at the Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas; at the Lawrence Public Library; and as an editorial intern for BOMB magazine.

Read her Fellowship story, "Dreamweaver," in A Public Space No. 30. 

was a 2019 Writing Fellow. At the time of his fellowship, he was a recent graduate of the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan.

Read his Fellowship story, "This Is the Way," in A Public Space No. 29

was a 2019 Writing Fellow. At the time of his fellowship, his work had appeared in Hobart; Full Stop, where he is the interviews editor; and the Chicago Review of Books.

Read his Fellowship story, "Family Therapy," in A Public Space No. 29

was a 2019 Writing Fellow. A New York City public school teacher, at the time of her fellowship her work had appeared in the New York Times.

Read her Fellowship essay, "Heart Problems," in A Public Space No. 29

was a 2018 Writing Fellow. Born and raised in Natal, Brazil, at the time of her fellowship she was an MFA candidate in literary translation at the University of Iowa and working on original prose exploring notions of silence and disappearing. Her first book of literary translation, Caio Fernando Abreu's Moldy Strawberries, was published in 2022 by Archipelago.

Read her Fellowship story, "Diversions," in A Public Space No. 27

was a 2018 Writing Fellow. A member of the Yuma Nation, at the time of her Fellowship her work had appeared in Brevity, Salon, the Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere; and she was co-writing Digadohi: Lands, Cherokee, and the Trail of Tears which aired on PBS. Her debut memoir, Whiskey Tender, received a PEN/Jean Stein Grant and will be published by Harper.

Read her Fellowship essay, "Almost Human," in A Public Space No. 27

was a 2018 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, her work had appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, West Branch, and the Sun. Her debut novel, Perish, will be published in 2022 by Tiny Reparations.

Read her Fellowship story, "Tipping," in A Public Space No. 27

was a 2017 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, she had recently graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she worked on a series of hand-blown glass objects.

Read her Fellowship essay, "Meeting Points: Between and In Between Subject and Object," in A Public Space No. 26

was a 2017 Writing Fellow. Born on the outskirts of New York City's Chinatown, at the time of her fellowship she was working on a series of essays exploring cultural taboos; loss and silence; gentrification; and what's passed down from one generation to the next.

Read her Fellowship essay, "Other Homes," in A Public Space No. 26

was a 2017 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, she was working on a linked short story collection that follows three generations of a family in Oregon's western Cascades, where she'd worked as a whitewater rafting guide, ski lift operator, and photographer for a Northwest adventure company.

Read her Fellowship story, "Bergtagen," in A Public Space No. 26

was a 2016 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, she was sixty years old and had only begun writing seriously three years earlier. Her projects included a graphic novel set in Victorian London on the short but remarkable life of Adelaide Foltinowicz.

Read her Fellowship essay, "A List of Some of the Things Martin Knows," in A Public Space No. 25

was a 2016 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, she was a PhD candidate in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia, and her work had appeared in Fence, Fairy Tale Review, and the Gettysburg Review.

Read her Fellowship story, "The Pale Pig," in A Public Space No. 25

was a 2016 Writing Fellow. Born in Serowe, Botswana, at the time of her fellowship she was an MFA candidate at the University of Mississippi and had been a finalist for the Driftless Prize in Fiction. Her debut collection, Call and Response, will be published in 2023 by Viking.

Read her Fellowship story, "Bodies," in A Public Space No. 25

was a 2015 Writing Fellow. At the time of his fellowship, he was a twenty-year-old student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His debut story collection, God's Children Are Little Broken Things, was published in 2022 by A Public Space Books.

Read his Fellowship story, "God’s Children Are Little Broken Things," in A Public Space No. 24

was a 2015 Writing Fellow. At the time of his fellowship, he was a student in the Creative Writing MFA Program at Colorado State University and an associate editor at the Colorado Review.

Read his Fellowship story, "The Future of Statues," in A Public Space No. 24

was a 2015 Writing Fellow. At the time of his fellowship, his work had appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, the Coffin Factory, and the Statesman. His debut novel, A Play for the End of the World, was published in 2021 by Knopf.

Read his Fellowship story, "A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness," in A Public Space No. 24

was a 2014 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, she was writing about communities of color, with a particular focus on the Caribbean Diaspora on the East Coast, from Brooklyn to Florida.

was a 2014 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, she was working on a collection of short stories set in Pakistan and was visiting faculty at the National University of Sciences and Technology in Islamabad.

Read her Fellowship story, "Basic Training," in A Public Space No. 24

was a 2014 Writing Fellow. At the time of her fellowship, her work had appeared in Unsaid, the Collagist, Quarterly West, and Broken Pencil; and she was the lead film critic for LA Weekly. She also directed two short films and had been a semi-professional wrestler.

Read her Fellowship story, "Trig Functions," in A Public Space No. 24