UCR Author Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

UCR Today


Creative writing professor Emily Rapp Black is one of 173 scholars, artists, and scientists honored nationwide
By Bettye Miller on April 7, 2017
Share this article:

Emily Rapp Black has won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

RIVERSIDE, California – Novelist Emily Rapp Black, an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 173 Guggenheim Fellowships today to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants. The fellowships are awarded “on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise,” the foundation said in announcing the recipients in New York City. This year marks the 93rd year of competition for the awards.
“It’s exciting to name 173 new Guggenheim Fellows,” said Edward Hirsch, president of the foundation. “These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best. Each year since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has bet everything on the individual, and we’re thrilled to continue to do so with this wonderfully talented and diverse group. It’s an honor to be able to support these individuals to do the work they were meant to do.”
Rapp Black’s award brings to 88 the number of Guggenheim Fellowships presented to UC Riverside scholars since the campus opened in 1954. Guggenheim recipients in 2017 will receive approximately $50,000 each to support their research.
Emily Rapp Black teaches and writes around subjects related to disability studies, feminist theology, medical narratives, medical ethics, and the literature of embodiment, trauma, and recovery. She is active in the cultural dialogue around end of life care, quality of life, and pediatric hospice care. She is the author of “Poster Child: A Memoir” and “The Still Point of the Turning World,” which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Nonfiction. Her book-length lyric essay, “Casa Azul ...

Read More