Colson Whitehead, Zadie Smith, Alex Chee and You
Your Hertog Fellowship will have you helping out a great New York writer with their work in progress. In 2018 that might be Zadie Smith, Colson Whitehead, Jay McInerney or Alexander Chee. (See the full list below.) So you will become deeply involved in the project of a mentor who has been selected by Hunter not only for their high level of achievement but their generosity of spirit. Thanks to them you will gain a deeper understanding of how research is used, not only by writers of non-fiction, but fiction too. Finally you will see the fruit of your labors transformed in the published work.
Hertog Fellowship Writers
Under the Hertog Fellowship, Hunter MFA students (named in parentheses) have worked with the following writers:
Fall 2020
Rivka Galchen (Ted Berg)
Colson Whitehead (Mohamed Morshed)
Valeria Luiselli (Angelica Martinez)
Nathan Englander (Aron Meshchaninov)
Claire Messud (Nora Lewontin-Rojas)
Nell Freudenberger (Brielle Babiar)
Thomas Chatterton Williams (Torey Akers)
Cheryl Strayed (Alexis Cheung)
Phillip Lopate (Jaydra Johnson)
Ruth Franklin (Sarah Ballan)
Ed Park (Rebecca Patton)
Fall 2019
Rivka Galchen (Katie Schorr)
Kaitlyn Greenidge (Julia Specht)
Hisham Matar (Max Lebo)
Hernan Diaz (Graham Akhurst)
Colson Whitehead (Bernard Mokam)
Liz Moore (Ashley Albert)
Fall 2018
Zadie Smith (Mae Mattia)
Colson Whitehead (Jessica VanDevanter)
Alexander Chee (Sam Stover)
Victor LaValle (Rachel Sobel)
Claire Messud (Rebekka Barnett)
Colum McCann (Marc Bitz)
Porochista Khakpour (Anuradha Bhagwati)
Frank Bruni (Eliza Martin)
Bill Finnegan (Kate Farrell)
Terry McDonel
(Jay McInerney)
Fall 2017
Cheryl Strayed (Kristen Gwynne)
Jonathan Franzen (Ernesto Barbieri)
ZZ Packer (Nicholas Moore)
Hisham Matar (Leslie Pariseau)
Darin Strauss (Leilani Zee)
Patrick McGrath (Jamie Harris)
Dani Shapiro (Wendy Hammond)
James Atlas (Michael Rizzo)
Lauret Savoy (Natasha Persaud)
Meghan O'Rourke (Diehl Edwards)
Fall 2016
Jonathan Franzen (Timothy Bradley)
Phil Klay (John Ptacek)
Adam Haslet (Bryna Cofrin-Shaw)
Lauret Savoy (Laura Marshall)
Hisham Matar (Miriam Bazeed)
Patrick McGrath (Joshua Krigman)
Francine Prose (Sujata Shekar)
Darin Strauss (Kim Lester)
Dani Shapiro (Erica Schwiegershausen)
Meghan O'Rourke (Judy Calabrese)
James Atlas (Kirsten O'Hanlon)
Leslie Jamison (Shayna Goodman)
Colum McCann (Cindy Wu)
Fall 2015
Jennifer Egan (Sean Hammer)
Nathan Englander (Darragh McKeon)
Rivka Galchen (Jacob Eigen)
Tea Obreht (Julianna Hurtado)
Francine Prose (Cassandra Eddington)
Bill Cheng (Rachel Aherin)
Patrick McGrath (Brian Harkin)
Darin Strauss (Stacey Engels)
Dani Shapiro (Jessica Hester)
Clara Bingham (Peter Schmader)
Honor Moore (H'rina Detroy)
Maria Venegas (Matthew Caprioli)
Francisco Goldman (Laura McKinney)
Fall 2014
Joyce Carol Oates (Claire Tascio)
Adam Haslet (Laura Gibson)
Francine Prose (Basia Winograd)
Darin Strauss (Clare Needham)
A.M. Homes (Sadia Shepard)
Katie Kitamura (Ian Seiter)
Patrick McGrath (Jack Austin)
Cathleen Medwick (Angel Eduardo)
Honor Moore (Effy Redman)
Luke Barr (Clea Bierman)
Larissa MacFarquhar (Celia Barbour)
Peter Godwin (Jonathan Rizzo)
Fall 2013
Kurt Anderson (Stephen Bruno)
A.M. Homes (Edyson Julio)
Darin Strauss (Christopher Fox)
George Packer (Molly Englund)
Katie Roiphe (Kate Neuman)
Nicole Krauss (Swati Khurana)
Hari Kunzru & Katie Kitamura (Stephanie Skaff)
Patrick McGrath (Danny Lorberbaum)
Said Sayrafiezadeh (Gracie Gin)
Danielle Trussoni (Jeanne Hobesh)
Honor Moore (Alice Neiley)
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 (Martin 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)
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) |
