Deborah Eisenberg, an acclaimed short stories author and University of Virginia creative writing professor, was named one of this year’s 24 recipients of the prestigious “genius grants.”
The five year, $500,000, no-strings-attached grants are awarded each year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional creativity in their fields and show promise of continuing their creative work.
Along with Eisenberg, this year’s round of MacArthur Fellows includes luminaries from the fields of computer science, evolutionary biology, photojournalism, ornithology, art, mathematics and more.
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