Former Grand Marais resident Tracy Faud awarded a Literature Fellowship from the NEA

Tracy Faud

Tracy Faud was recently awarded a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship: Creative Writing-Literary Art. Tracy applied for the fellowship while living and working in Grand Marais.

Tracy is the author of about: blank, a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the winner of the Donald Hall Prize, published in 2021 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is also the author of the chapbooks PITH, Body of Water 2, and DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD. Her work has been supported with grants, residencies, and fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, the Barbara Deming Fund, Vermont Studio Center, and Callie’s. Her writing has been published and anthologized by POETRY, Best New Poets, the Yale Review, the New Republic, and the Boston Review. A graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program, she lives currently in Berlin with her family, and teaches poetry at the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.