The Hertog Fellowship
Every semester we select four or five students as Hertog Fellows. These individuals are then each paired with a celebrated writer to work ten hours a week as a research assistant. The students each get a check for $5,000, the benefits of which need no explanation.
Perhaps even more importantly, each student becomes deeply involved in the project of their mentor, gaining a deeper understanding of how research is used by fiction or non-fiction writers and finally, seeing the fruit of their own labors transformed in the published work.
Along the way, of course, each of these students forms a working relationship with a practicing writer who will have been selected by Hunter not only for their high level of achievement but their generosity of spirit.
Hertog Fellowship Writers
Under the Hertog Fellowship, Hunter MFA students (named in parentheses) have worked with the following writers:
Spring 2013
Jonathan Safran Foer (Jane Breakell)
Nell Freudenberger (Kent Jones)
Jennifer Egan (Jesse Barron)
Joyce Carol Oates (Mariette Kalinowski)
Rivka Galchen (Dana Czapnik)
Darin Strauss (Jeanie Vanasco)
Mark Doty (George Wen)
Suketu Metha (Helen Zuman)
Nicholas Dawidoff (Anita Diggs)
Honor Moore (Olga Belykh)
TBA (Lindale Banks)
Spring 2012
Jay McInerney (Ben Frischer)
Joyce Carol Oates (Marin Quinn)
Francine Prose (Laurice Parkin)
Francisco Goldman (Brad Fox)
Marlon James (Kenneth Barrett)
Paul Elie (Joseph Shapiro)
Said Sayrafiezadeh (John Trotta)
Suketa Mehta & Nick Flynn (Rainer Lee)
William Cohan (Elizabeth Palumbo)
Lis Harris (Bridget Cullings)
Chris Adrian (Claire Cox)
Claire Messud (Fatin Abbas)
Fall 2011
[hiatus]
Spring 2011
ZZ Packer (Jessica Lacher)
Russell Banks (Meghan Daniels)
Darryl Pickney (Krystal Sital)
Michael Patrick MacDonald (Jose Gaytan)
Fall 2010
Gary Shteyngart (Jeffrey Bennett)
Rick Moody (Ryan-Daniel Healy)
Amitav Ghosh (Megha Majumdar, who is thanked for her work in the acknowledgements of Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke)
Nicholas Dawidoff (Jennifer Hasskamp)
Mona Simpson (Geimy Colon)
Honor Moore (Cecilia Donohoe)
Francine Prose (Tanya Marquardt)
Spring 2010
Jonathan Safran Foer (Lauren Holmes)
Hari Kunzru (Katherine Vane)
Donald Antrim (Jessie Male)
A.M. Homes (Sarah Goffman)
Francine Prose (Anna Bierhaus)
Mark Doty (Lia Ottaviano)
Nicholas Dawidoff (Samantha Smith)
FALL 2009
Zadie Smith/Ben Marcus (Sunil Yapa, who is thanked for his work, in the acknowledgements of Zadie Smith's On Changing My Mind and of Ben Marcus' The Flame Alphabet)
Richard Ford (Philip Klay)
Rivka Galchen (VernonWilson)
Francisco Goldman (Sherisse Alvarez)
Honor Moore (Jill Shreve)
SPRING 2009
Jonathan Franzen (Scott Cheshire, who is thanked for his work, in the hardcover edition of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom)
Francine Prose (Noa Jones)
Suketu Mehta (Sangamithra Iyer)
Nicky Dawidoff (Jessica Markram)
Patrick McGrath (Brianne Kennedy)
FALL 2008
Jonathan Lethem (Richard Humphries)
Colson Whitehead (Kaitlyn Greenidge)
Andrew Sean Greer (Carmiel Banasky)
Wendy Salinger (Vanessa Malone)
Lis Harris (Cynthia Poultanovitch)
SPRING 2008
Nicole Krauss (Jessica Soffer)
Gary Shteyngart (Alex Gilvarry, who is thanked for his work in the acknowledgements of Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story)
George Black (Peter Messina, who is thanked for his work in the acknowledgements of George Black's Empire of Shadows)
Honor Moore (Anna Marian)
Francine Prose (Tennessee Jones)
FALL 2007
Toni Morrison (Eva Talmadge)
Russell Banks (Liz Moore, who is thanked for her work in the acknowledgments of Russell Banks' The Memory of Skin)
Patrick McGrath (Jason Porter)
Francine Prose (Annie Levin)
Frank McCourt (Maria Venegas)
SPRING 2007
E.L. Doctorow (Gabriel Packard)
Francine Prose (Ana Rodriquez)
Darin Strauss (Ryan Berg)
Kathryn Harrison (Sara Nelson)
FALL 2006
Salman Rushdie (Vanessa Manko, who is thanked for her work, in the acknowledgements of Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence)
Toni Morrison (Aura Estrada)
Jonathan Safran Foer (Matt Mercier, who is thanked for his work in the acknowledgments of Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals)
A.M. Homes (Renee Schaller)
Patricia Chao (Sophia Kim)
SPRING 2006
Jonathan Franzen (Charlie Helveric, who is thanked for his work, in the hardcover edition of Jonathan Franzen's Freedom)
Richard Price (Concetta Ceriello)
Siri Hustvedt (Elaina Ganim)
Michael Patrick MacDonald (Jade Sanchez-Ventura)
Anne Burt & Christina Baker-Kline (Sheila Hageman & Manijeh Nasrabadi)
FALL 2005
Nathan Englander (James McCloskey)
Colum McCann (Emily Stone)
Jenny Egan (Jeffrey Rotter)
Kathryn Harrison (Dylan Brock)
Patrick McGrath (Geronimo Madrid) |
