Baron Fellows

Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowships are for creative and performing artists and writers.

Name		Residence	Fellowship	Date	Project
Deborah Brevoort	playwright	North Bergen, NJ	Baron	2012	Research for a historical play about George and Martha Washington and the role of fashion in shaping American identity
Amy Brill	writer	Brooklyn, NY	Baron	2005	Movement of the Stars: A fictional account of a female astronomer in the early 1800s Nantucket
Wendy Call	non-fiction writer	Seattle, WA	Baron	2010	Series of literary essays about the grieving process
Martha Carlson-Bradley	poet	Hillsborough, NH	Baron	2008	Begin with Trouble: A collection of poems inspired by the 1727 New England Primer
Matt Dellinger	non-fiction writer and digital artist	Brooklyn, NY	Baron	2016	The Brooklyn 14th Regiment
Gino Dilorio	playwright	New York, NY	Baron	2007	Research into life of Edmund Ross, southern politician who cast the deciding vote, insuring that President Andrew Johnson would be spared impeachment
Joanne Dobson	writer	Berkeley, CA	Baron	2004	The Kashmiri Shawl: A historical novel set in New York City, 1860
Heidi Durrow	fiction writer	Los Angeles, CA	Baron	2007	Research for novel about Miss Lala, famous strongwoman, circus aerialist and acrobat of the Victorian era
Maureen Fouratt and Mary Eileen Egan	creative writers	Richmond, VA	Baron	2022	Research for nonfiction picture book for school-aged children about the life and work of Ruth Henshaw Bascom, 19th-century folk artist
Diane Glancy	poet	Shawnee Mission, KS	Baron	2020	Quadrille: A poetry manuscript that explores the effect of Christianity on the Native American
Debra Gwartney	non-fiction writer	Oregon	Baron	2008	I am a Stranger Here Myself: A memoir and history of Narcissa Prentiss Whitman and womanhood in the patriarchal American West
Lisa Hayes	playwright	Bowie, MD	Baron	2011	Research on colonial America just before the Revolutionary War to be used in writing two museum theater plays for the Accokeek Foundation's Natonal Colonial Farm
Monique Celeste Hayes	historical novelist	Fort Washington, MD	Baron	2023	Research for “Sally Forth,” on African-American experience during the American Revolution from the years 1771-1785
Charles Hirshberg	writer	New York, NY	Baron	2005	Vistas of Destiny: Thomas Wentworth Higginson in Worcester
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	poet	Norman, OK	Baron	2009	Research for book of poems whose centerpiece is a series about Phillis Wheatley, which imagines her interior life
Emily Laurance	musician, harpist	Chapel Hill, NC	Baron	2001	Sacred Music and Theatrical Songs in Early Nineteenth Century America
Eireann Lorsung	writer	Farmington, ME	Baron	2020	Non-fiction work that examines the history of gardens in Europe and the U.S.
Joann Mazzio	writer	Pinos Altos, NM	Baron	2000	Fremont Expeditions in the 1840's
Laurie McCants	actor	Bloomsburg, PA	Baron	2019	Solo performance about Frances Slocum, who in 1778 was abducted by the Lenape at 5 years of age
TaraShea Nesbit	writer	Oxford, OH	Baron	2018	Beheld: The story of the Mayflower pilgrims told through the eyes of two women, Alice Bradford, a puritan, and Eleanor Billington, an indentured servant
Leila Philip	writer	Woodstock, CT	Baron	2018	Non-fiction book about the experiences of contemporary New England fur trappers, offering a compelling, if startling window through which to reconsider environmentalism
Melissa Range	poet	Columbia, MO	Baron	2013	Poetry project about the abolitionist movement
Catherine Reid	writer, essayist	Asheville, NC	Baron	2012	Research for extended work of creative nonfiction tentatively titled "13 Travels with William Bartram" on the life and writings of William Bartram (1739-1823).
Suzanne Rivecca	fiction writer	San Francisco, CA	Baron	2010	Novel about Walt Whitman's sojourn by boat to New Orleans with his teenage brother, Jeff
David Roderick	poet	Berkeley, CA	Baron	2003	Blue Colonial: A collection of poems on the cultural interaction between the colonists and the Wampanoag tribe in the early seventeenth-century
Erik Rodgers	fiction writer	Los Angeles, CA	Baron	2017	Research for a novel entitled “The Broken World”
Margaret Rozga	poet	Milwaukee, WI	Baron	2014	Pestiferous Questions: A collection of poems inspired by the life of Jessie Benton Fremont
Linwood Rumney	poet	Cincinnati, OH	Baron	2017	Research for a collection of poems entitled “Discrepant Means”
Catherine Sasanov	poet	Jamaica Plain, MA	Baron	2016	Markd Y (Archives and Invocations)
Jeanne Schinto	independent writer	Andover, MA	Baron	2015	Research for 5-part series about the Walpole Society
Robert Shuster	writer	Westchester County, NY	Baron	2006	The Indestructible Soldier: A non-fiction book on America's culture of war and the military in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
R. Sikoryak	Cartoonist	New York, NY	Baron	2006	Comic strip adaptation of Moby Dick
Britta Sjogren	filmmaker	San Francisco, CA	Baron	2003	A Chain of Windows
Sara Smith	choreographer	Greenfield, MA	Baron	2015	Florence Rice Hitchcock and the Theory of The Soft Earth: A multimedia dance project
James Thomas Stevens	poet	Fredonia, NY	Baron	2004	Alphabets of Letters: A poem that explores propaganda found in Native American children's primers
Ginger Strand	non-fiction writer	New York, NY	Baron	2006	Inventing Niagara: A non-fiction work on Niagara Falls
Darlene Taylor	writer	Howard University	Baron	2022	Research for novel that follows the lives of two people fighting for freedom and trying to restore their lives after the Civil War
Tess Taylor	Poet	El Cerrito, CA	Baron	2006	Book of poems titled The Family Chest
Cam Terwilliger	fiction writer	Somerville, MA	Baron	2011	The Counterfeiter: A novel set in New York and Québec during the French and Indian War (1754–1763)
Lynn Thomson	dramaturg, theater director	New York, NY	Baron	2013	The Time Traveler's Trip to Niagara Falls
Holly Wendt	novelist	Annville, PA	Baron	2014	Holystone: A novel based on the early eighteenth century pirate Captain Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy
Trudy Williams	playwright	Leeds, MA	Baron	2019	Complex Harmony: Music, Walt Whitman, and the Railroads
Lauren Yee	playwright	San Francisco, CA	Baron	2009	interdisciplinary play exploring the concept of "performing racial identity in America"

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