Woman of light kali5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() Since 1925, Guggenheim Fellowships have provided grants annually to those who demonstrate exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ![]() It signifies that I’m part of this community of writers who are important.” “That hurt has lessened,” she says, “because I feel like you can only win the Guggenheim once in your whole life. The Guggenheim Fellowship somewhat ameliorates the sense of anger and rejection she experienced when Woman of Light was overlooked by mainstream media and-for years before that-publishers. The uplifting impact of the Guggenheim FellowshipĬurrently dividing her time between Wyoming and Texas, where she is the Texas State University Endowed Chair in Creative Writing, Fajardo-Anstine is generous and candid in our conversation, revealing that there were many years in which she piled up rejection letters and felt her hope dissipating. I write for my ancestors, myself and my community.” It took months for me to accept that’s not why I write. It was extremely hard on me when Woman of Light wasn’t reviewed by major newspapers… I felt like I had failed that I had let my community down. But when the Denver, Colorado-born author was announced as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in March, she took to Instagram to share that “there were many times that I felt discouraged as a writer and as though my work wasn’t acknowledged. ![]()
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