2023 Fresh Voices Fellow and Finalists
We are pleased to announce the 2023 Fellow and two finalists for our Fresh Voices Fellowship. Thank you to everyone who applied and trusted us with their work; the sheer amount of talent we found made our jobs that much more difficult.
2023 Fresh Voices Fellowship winner and finalists:
Dawn Angelicca Barcelona (she/her) is a Filipina-American poet based in San Francisco, originally from New Jersey. She was a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Grantee to South Korea in 2014 and was awarded the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Award in Poetry (2022). She volunteers with the National Alliance on Mental Illness and curated the performing arts, film, and music showcases for Kearny Street Workshop's annual APAture Festival in 2021 & 2022. She likes to dance, collage, and travel via public transportation.
Lindsay Ferguson is a writer and visual artist from Columbus, Ohio. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Barrelhouse and Best Debut Short Stories. In 2021, she was named a winner of the PEN America/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. In 2022, she was named a Tin House Scholar. When she's not writing or creating art, Lindsay can be found helping nonprofits wrangle their communications.
Stephanie Niu is a poet from Marietta, Georgia and the author of She Has Dreamt Again of Water, winner of the 2021 Diode Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Waxwing, Ecotone, and The Georgia Review. She lives in New York City.
