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Richie Hofmann Named National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow

Portrait of the poet Richie Hofmann, author of A HUNDRED LOVERS and SECOND EMPIRE, and Writing Seminars graduate (MFA '14).

The National Endowment for the Arts has announced that Richie Hofmann, MFA ’14, is one of 35 writers selected to receive a 2025 Creative Writing Fellowship of $25,000. This year’s fellowships are in poetry and enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career development. Fellows are selected through an anonymous review process and are judged on the basis of artistic excellence of the work sample they provided. These fellowships are highly competitive, with more than 2,000 eligible applications received for FY 2025.

Hofmann is the author of two books of poems, A Hundred Lovers (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) and Second Empire (Alice James Books, 2015). His poetry has appeared recently in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review, and he has been honored with the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He currently teaches at the University of Chicago.

Hofmann will return to The Writing Seminars this April to host a public panel on poetry, publishing, and editorial careers. In the event, co-hosted with novelist Katherine Howe, the guest authors will discuss writing, working in publishing, and life after a humanities major.

The event will be held on Wednesday April 9th at 6:00pm in Gilman Hall 50. Click here for the event listing.

cover of A HUNDRED LOVERS by Richie Hofmann. Depicts a side-view of an ancient marble statue missing its head and limbs, against a black background.
SECOND EMPIRE by Richie Hofmann. Book cover depicts an old map with topographical coloring. Upon second viewing the topographical shading appears to be a man's throat and jaw.