Chris Offutt 2003 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction

Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Kentucky, a former mining community of two hundred people, and graduated from Morehead State University, KY. He is the author of No Heroes, The Same River Twice, Kentucky Straight, Out of the Woods, and The Good Brother. Honors for his work include Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

Offutt is a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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Natalie Diaz Receives Literary Fellowship

Poet and short fiction writer Natalie Diaz is a recipient of a 2012 Lannan Literary Fellowship. Her brilliant first collection of poetry, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published earlier this year by Copper Canyon Press. Read more.

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