Hearst Fellows

Hearst Foundations Fellowships are for creative and performing artists and writers.

		Residence	Fellowship	Year	Project
Arielle Ballard	poet	Brockton, MA	Hearst	2017	Research on interactions between black and indigenous people for a full-length book of poetry
Lisa Bielawa	composer, producer, performer	New York, NY	Hearst	2018	Sanctuary & Centuries in the Hours: A series of small works for the violin and voice, focusing on immigration
Laurie Block	filmmaker	Conway, MA	Hearst	2007	Documentary about Helen Keller
Geoffrey Brock	poet	Fayetteville, Arkansas	Hearst	2001	Voices Bright Flags: Poems based on American historical events
Katrina Browne	filmmaker	Berkeley, CA	Hearst	2000	Traces of the Trade: Research on the history and legacy of the slave trade in New England
Stephanie Carpenter	fiction writer	Hancock, MI	Hearst	2015	Many and Wide Separations: Two novellas that focus on fictional female artists in mid-nineteenth-century New England
Melanie Cataldo	illustrator	Worcester, MA	Hearst	2020	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
Maureen Cummins	book artist	Bearsville, NY	Hearst	2000	Anthro(A)pology
Deborah Dancy	painter	Storrs, CT	Hearst	2002	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
Camille Dungy	poet	Colorado State University	Hearst	2005	Suck on the Marrow
Ansel Elkins	poet	Greensboro, NC	Hearst	2012	A collection of poems about the lives of 19th-century conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker and Millie-Christine McKoy
Kimberly Elkins	fiction writer	New York, NY	Hearst	2007	What is Visible: A novel about the lives of Laura Bridgman and Julia Ward Howe
Amina Gautier	fiction writer	Chicago, IL	Hearst	2013	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
Kelle Groom	poet	New Smyrna Beach, FL	Hearst	2011	Memoir about Thomas Greenough, the last surviving Wampanoag Indian on the Bass River reservation in South Yarmouth, MA
Anne Harley	musician, soprano	Claremont, CA	Hearst	2012	True Witness: A multi-choral civil rights cantata inspired by the texts of Charlotte Forten
Sean Hill	poet	Bemidji, MN	Hearst	2010	Dangerous Goods: A series of poems about two African American men who immigrated with their families from Milledgeville, GA to Liberia in the 1870s
Hallie Hobson	playwright	New York, NY	Hearst	2001	Watchnight: A play on the eve of Emancipation
Brece Honeycutt	mixed media artist	Sheffield, MA	Hearst	2019	A series of artworks that demonstrate at their core a respect for the natural world in ages past
Shirley Hunt	musician	Boston, MA	Hearst	2022	Research for concert/lecture which focuses on early 19th-century lutherie in New England
Sandra Jackson-Opoku	novelist	Chicago, IL	Hearst	2008	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
Carolyn Kras	writer, screen (TV, theater, stage)	Los Angeles, CA	Hearst	2014	Research for a TV pilot script to take place in 1871 after the Great Chicago Fire
Darryl Lauster	sculptor	Arlington, TX	Hearst	2022	Research for a series of bronze sculptures that will visually identify with scrolls and parchment manuscripts
Danielle Legros Georges	poet	Boston, MA	Hearst	2023	Research for “Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England,” a series of poems about Black self-determinism and articulations of freedom within and against the context of Northern slavery
Ruth Lopez	writer	Chicago, IL	Hearst	2003	Research in the McLoughlin Brothers archive toward a social history on the artists who helped create children's literature in America
Ann Lovett	photographer	New Paltz, NY	Hearst	2009	Artist book about the textile mills of Lowell and other Massachusetts mill towns and the "mill girls" who worked in them
Erin Lyons	fiction writer	Washington, DC	Hearst	2015	Historical novel about Anne Hutchinson and the Massachusetts Bay Colony, from 1630-1638, told from the point of view of a servant girl
Denise Miller	creative writer	Texas Township, MI	Hearst	2016	Travelogos: African Americans and the Struggle for Safe Passage
David Mills	poet	Long Island City, NY	Hearst	2019	After Mistic: A poetry manuscript that focuses on slavery in Massachusetts and New York
Martha Morss	writer	Mount Vernon, OH	Hearst	2004	Mary Katherine Goddard, colonial printer
Lavonne Mueller	playwright	Chicago, IL	Hearst	2003	A collection of short one-story plays about six notable American women, Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, Sacagawea, Lucy Stone, Harriet Tubman, and Martha Washington
Brian Mullin	playwright	London, U.K.	Hearst	2018	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
Kathryn Nuernberger	poet	Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN.	Hearst	2010	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
Aimee Parkison	fiction writer	Stillwater, OK	Hearst	2013	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
Alyson Pou	performance artist	New York, NY	Hearst	2004	A Slight Headache (solo performance)
Celeste Roberge	sculptor	South Portland, ME	Hearst	2008	Granite Sofa (sculpture)
Nancy Rubin Stuart	writer	New York, NY	Hearst	2005	The Muse of the Revolution; The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Michael Schlitt	storyteller	Los Angeles, CA	Hearst	2020	The Pursuit of Happiness podcast: a multi-episode audio series about Americans' quest for an elusive, aspirational ideal of happiness
Sarah Stern	playwright	Red Hook, NY	Hearst	2014	Research for play tentatively called "The Spectator," which deals with the intersection of politics and theatre in New York City during the 1730s
Susan Stinson	novelist	Northampton, MA	Hearst	2016	Research for a novel about Elizabeth Tuttle Edwards
Robert Strong	poet	Maine	Hearst	2009	Bright Advent: A work of poetry set in the years leading to King Philip's War
Brian Teare	poet	Charlottesville, VA	Hearst	2011	Inter-disciplinary project including poetry and photographs, with focus on spirit photography and spiritualism
Ellen Wiener	painter, printmaker, book artist	Princeton, NJ	Hearst	2002	A new 'Book of Hours' using imagery from nineteenth century sources
Kriota Willberg	choreographer and cartoonist	New York, NY	Hearst	2006	Updated version for a performance of the 1866 Broadway production of 'The Black Crook'
Shana Youngdahl	Poet and author	Farmington, ME	Hearst	2017	Research for poems about women in the early New England tin ware industry

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