Since 1990, Fishtrap has awarded more than 145 Fellowships to new and emerging writers, many of whom have gone on to publish and succeed in full-time careers as writers and teachers. A Fishtrap Fellowship includes full registration to the Summer Fishtrap Gathering of Writers, lodging, meals, and a featured reading during the week. Fishtrap is able to provide Fellowships through the generous support from individuals and foundations.
Meet Our 2022 Summer Fishtrap Fellows
Lauren R. Korn holds an M.A. in poetry from the University of New Brunswick, where she was the recipient of the Tom Riesterer Memorial Prize and the Angela Ludan Levine Memorial Book Prize. She is the host and co-producer of Montana Public Radio’s literature-based radio program and podcast, The Write Question. She is a former bookseller, the former Director of Content for The Adroit Journal, and has held reading positions with Qwerty, The Fiddlehead, icehouse poetry, and Ploughshares. Her interviews with authors have been published in Foglifter, The Adroit Journal, The Malahat Review, and Carve Magazine; and her short book reviews have been featured in the American Bookseller Association’s IndieNext previews and on LitHub.com. She currently lives on the aboriginal territories of the Salish and Kalispel people (Missoula, Montana).
Alexander Ortega is an emerging Salt Lake City–based fiction writer currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from Eastern Oregon University. He explores absurdism, realism, and the interstices between them to fabricate his own dimensions on the page. Ortega’s work has been published in Quarterly West, Moss literary journal, and an anthology called EVERGREEN: Grim Tales & Verses from the Gloomy Northwest.
Chelsea Querner is a poet living in Portland. She originally hails from the Boston area and earned her MFA in creative writing from UNC-Greensboro, where she served as the Poetry Editor of The Greensboro Review. Chelsea volunteers in her community as a writing workshop facilitator to help support social service agencies and aspiring writers.
2022 Fellowship Judge – James Crews
James Crews is the editor of the best-selling anthology, How to Love the World, which has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, as well as in The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. He is the author of four prize-winning collections of poetry: The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment, and his poems have been reprinted in the New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and The Christian Century. Crews teaches poetry at the University at Albany and lives with his husband in Shaftsbury, Vermont.
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