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Hearst Fellows

			Fellowship	Affiliation	Position	Project
Ballard	Arielle	2017	Hearst	Brockton, MA	poet	Research on interactions between black and indigenous people for a full-length book of poetry
Bielawa	Lisa	2018	Hearst	New York, NY	composer, producer, performer	Sanctuary & Centuries in the Hours: A series of small works for the violin and voice, focusing on immigration
Block	Laurie	2007	Hearst	Conway, MA	filmmaker	Documentary about Helen Keller
Brock	Geoffrey	2001	Hearst	Fayetteville, Arkansas	poet	Voices Bright Flags: Poems based on American historical events
Browne	Katrina	2000	Hearst	Berkeley, CA	filmmaker	Traces of the Trade: Research on the history and legacy of the slave trade in New England
Carpenter	Stephanie	2015	Hearst	Hancock, MI	fiction writer	Many and Wide Separations: Two novellas that focus on fictional female artists in mid-nineteenth-century New England
Cataldo	Melanie	2020	Hearst	Worcester, MA	illustrator	The Making: An illustrated novel that focuses on the struggle of two young girls living by 19th century standards in mid 20th century New England
Cummins	Maureen	2000	Hearst	Bearsville, NY	book artist	Anthro(A)pology
Dancy	Deborah	2002	Hearst	Storrs, CT	painter	The Conjurer's Apprentice or The Legend of Yellow Mary: A Slave Girl's Tale of Survival by her Wit and Extraordinary Powers, as written by herself
Dungy	Camille	2005	Hearst	San Francisco, CA	poet	Suck on the Marrow
Elkins	Ansel	2012	Hearst	Greensboro, NC	poet	A collection of poems about the lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Elkins	Kimberly	2007	Hearst	New York, NY	fiction writer	What is Visible: A novel about the lives of Laura Bridgman and Julia Ward Howe
Gautier	Amina	2013	Hearst	Chicago, IL	fiction writer	Band of Gideon: A historical novel about 3 black female members of Gideon's Band, a group of Northern idealist, seminary students, school teachers, and abolitionists who traveled south to help the slaves on the South Carolina Sea Island
Groom	Kelle	2011	Hearst	New Smyrna Beach, FL	poet	Memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA
Harley	Anne	2012	Hearst	Claremont, CA	musician, soprano	True Witness: A multi-choral civil rights cantata inspired by the texts of Charlotte Forten
Hill	Sean	2010	Hearst	Bemidji, MN	poet	Dangerous Goods: A series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s
Hobson	Hallie	2001	Hearst	New York, NY	playwright	Watchnight: A play on the eve of Emancipation
Honeycutt	Brece	2019	Hearst	Sheffield, MA	mixed media artist	A series of artworks that demonstrate at their core a respect for the natural world in ages past
Jackson-Opoku	Sandra	2008	Hearst	Chicago, IL	novelist	God's Gift to the Natives: A novel that explores one musician's enigmatic life and tragic death, while also charting the history and movement of the African diaspora
Kras	Carolyn	2014	Hearst	Los Angeles, CA	writer, screen (TV, theater, stage)	Research for a TV pilot script to take place in 1871 after the Great Chicago Fire
Lopez	Ruth	2003	Hearst	Chicago, IL	writer	Research in the McLoughlin Brothers archive toward a social history on the artists who helped create children's literature in America
Lovett	Ann	2009	Hearst	New Paltz, NY	photographer	Artist book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Massachusetts mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them
Lyons	Erin	2015	Hearst	Washington, DC	fiction writer	Historical novel about Anne Hutchinson and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from 1630-1638, told from the point of view of a servant girl
Miller	Denise	2016	Hearst	Texas Township, MI	creative writer	Travelogos: African Americans and the Struggle for Safe Passage
Mills	David	2019	Hearst	Long Island City, NY	poet	After Mistic: A poetry manuscript that focuses on slavery in Massachusetts and New York
Morss	Martha	2004	Hearst	Mount Vernon, OH	writer	Mary Katherine Goddard, colonial printer
Mueller	Lavonne	2003	Hearst	Chicago, IL	playwright	A collection of short one-story plays about six notable American women, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Sacagawea, Lucy Stone, Harriet Tubman, and Martha Washington
Mullin	Brian	2018	Hearst	London, U.K.	playwright	Play inspired by the community of freed African-American slaves who lived freely in an abandoned British garrison in the West Florida territory following the end of the War of 1812
Nuernberger	Kathryn	2010	Hearst	Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN.	poet	A collection of poems that merges poetic and academic impulses through special attention to performance art from the 19th century as well as games, plays, and librettos
Parkison	Aimee	2013	Hearst	Stillwater, OK	fiction writer	Sister Seance: A historical literary novel set in Concord, MA in the 19th century, that explores the hidden sexual implications in parlor games and holiday courtship rituals of Victorian Americans
Pou	Alyson	2004	Hearst	New York, NY	performance artist	A Slight Headache (solo performance)
Roberge	Celeste	2008	Hearst	South Portland, ME	sculptor	Granite Sofa (sculpture)
Rubin Stuart	Nancy	2005	Hearst	New York, NY	writer	The Muse of the Revolution; The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Schlitt	Michael	2020	Hearst	Los Angeles, CA	storyteller	The Pursuit of Happiness podcast: a multi-episode audio series about Americans' quest for an elusive, aspirational ideal of happiness
Stern	Sarah	2014	Hearst	Red Hook, NY	playwright	Research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s
Stinson	Susan	2016	Hearst	Northampton, MA	novelist	Research for a novel about Elizabeth Tuttle Edwards
Strong	Robert	2009	Hearst	Maine	poet	Bright Advent: A work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War
Teare	Brian	2011	Hearst	Charlottesville, VA	poet	Inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
Wiener	Ellen	2002	Hearst	Princeton, NJ	painter, printmaker, book artist	A new 'Book of Hours' using imagery from nineteenth century sources
Willberg	Kriota	2006	Hearst	New York, NY	choreographer and cartoonist	Updated version for a performance of the 1866 Broadway production of 'The Black Crook'
Youngdahl	Shana	2017	Hearst	Farmington, ME	Poet and author	Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry

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