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Chandanie Somwaru Wins Ruth Lilly Fellowship

MFA alum Chandanie Somwaru has just been named a recipient of the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.

The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Among the largest awards offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to support exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.

The fellowships were established in 1989 by the Indianapolis philanthropist Ruth Lilly and expanded in 2013 with a gift from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund.

Chandanie won the Birdhouse Chapbook Prize from Ghostbird Press for Urgent \\ Where the Mind Goes \\ Scattered (2021) when she graduated, so we knew she was destined for great things. Her writing has been published in Poem-A-DayHoney LiterarySolsticeSWWIMThe Margins, and other outlets.

Congratulations, Chandanie!