2024 MacArthur Fellowships
The 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows have been announced for 2024, including filmmaker Sterlin Harjo of feature Mekko (2015) and TV series Reservation Dogs (2021-2023); Ling Ma, author of Severance (2018) and Bliss Montage (2022); Jason Reynolds, author of the Stuntboy children’s superhero series and YA fantasy Long Way Down (2017); and writer and disability activist Alice Wong, who had an essay in Uncanny’s “Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction!” issue (2018).
Each “genius grant” recipient receives a no-strings-attached stipend of $800,000 paid out in equal quarterly installments over five years.
Fellows are chosen by “a constantly changing pool of invited external nominators chosen from as broad a range of fields and areas of interest as possible” and a selection committee. Final decisions are made by the president and board of directors. “Nominators, evaluators, and selectors all serve anonymously and their correspondence is kept confidential.”
Previous Fellows of genre interest include writers Octavia E. Butler, Junot Díaz, Virginia Hamilton, N.K. Jemisin, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link, Karen Russell, George Saunders, Jesmyn Ward, and author/artist David Macaulay.
For the full list, see the MacArthur Foundation site.
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