Visiting Poet at CCNY and Hodder Fellowship winner Nicole Sealey. Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Award-winning poet and author is adding another accolade to her numerous honors. The Doris Lippman Visiting Poet in T九色视频鈥檚 MFA in Creative Writing Program is one of five winners internationally of .
The awards are presented by Princeton University鈥檚 . They provide artists and humanists in the early stages of their careers, with 鈥渕uch more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts,鈥 an opportunity to undertake significant new work.
Sealey鈥檚 fellow nationally renowned co-recipients are:
- Visual artist ;
- Writer ;
- Playwright ; and
- Choreographer .
Announcing the awards, Michael Cadden, chair of the Lewis Center, said, 鈥淢rs. Hodder recognized the need for what she called 鈥榮tudious leisure鈥 to give people the time they need to tackle major projects. Her model was John Milton鈥檚 father, who underwrote the research necessary to the creation of Paradise Lost. In the University鈥檚 role as a patron of the arts, we鈥檙e happy to welcome these five talented artists to the Princeton community. We hope they experience their Hodder year as 鈥榩aradise regained.鈥欌
Past Hodder Fellows have included Librarian of Congress , , playwright and actor , choreographer , and composer and .
Born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Sealey is the author of 鈥,鈥 a finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award and the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and 鈥,鈥 winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize.
Her other honors include the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review, a Daniel Varoujan Award, and the Poetry International Prize. She has, in addition, received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers鈥 Conference, CantoMundo, Cave Canem, MacDowell Colony, and the Poetry Project.
Sealey鈥檚 work has appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker and The New York Times.
The Doris Lippman Visiting Poet is a guest faculty position in the MFA program that is generously funded by the Lippman and Himmelfarb family.
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