Maud Casey Wins Guggenheim Fellowship For Creative Writing

Maud Casey will join writers, scholars, artists, historians, scientists and university faculty members after being selected last week for a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is one of 175 chosen from more than 3,100 applicants.

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The roughly 5 percent acceptance rate for John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship winners is about as selective as Harvard University’s — and one creative writing professor at this university falls within that percentage.
Maud Casey will join writers, scholars, artists, historians, scientists and university faculty members after being selected last week for a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. She is one of 175 chosen from more than 3,100 applicants.
“Delighted would be a huge understatement,” Casey said.

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