Awards

Grants from Money for Women give encouragement and recognition to women writers and visual artists whose feminist-centered work is often undervalued by other funding sources. Over 750 creative women have received grants since 1985.

Grant decisions are made collaboratively by a panel of volunteer judges who are accomplished in their genres and share the Fund's values. Judges change year to year, and panels are chosen with diversity of identity and aesthetics in mind. Money for Women appreciates the time and effort these judges contribute, many of whom in turn are gratified and inspired by the experience.

2024

Grants Awarded June 2024

Fiction

Jenna Abrams 
Elina Alter 
Sarah Anderson 
Carrie Cogan 
Siqi Liu 
Monaa Malik 
LaTanya McQueen 
Jasmina Nogo 
Shuchi Saraswat 
Kisha Schlegel 

Finalists 

Julie Belle 
Fatima Bhojani 
Bella Bravo 
Sakinah Hofler 
Gimbiya Kettering 
Lisa Lee 
Yasmin Majeed 
Maija Makinen 
Dodie Miller-Gould 
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz 
Tierney Oberhammer 
Jennifer Solheim 
Alex Temblador 
Christina Wood Martinez 

Visual Art

Rachel Clarke 
Rowena Federico Finn 
Coulter Fussell 
Anna Goraczko 
Morgan Levy 
Nina Mendez-Marti 
Patricia Miranda 
Kristin O’Connor 

Finalists 

Lisa Goren 
Veronica Jackson 
Melissa Grace Kreider 
Randi Matushevitz 
Paige Morris 
Sara Shaoul 
Jess Self 
Kristen Stolle 

  • Grants Awarded June 2023

    Soleil David 
    Starr Davis 
    Chelsy Diaz Amaya 
    Alisha Dietzman 
    Aria Dominguez 
    Carlina Duan 
    Rebecca Faulkner 
    May Jeong 
    Bethany Kaylor 
    Nazia Kazi 
    Grace MacNair 
    Lily Meyer 
    Lilly Nguyen 
    Susan Nguyen 
    Lisa Nikolidakis 
    Monica Ong 
    Michelle Peñaloza 
    Edythe Rodriguez 
    Lizzie Skurnick 
    Deirdre Sugiuchi 

  • Grants Awarded June 2022

    Jasmin Charles 
    Elvira Clayton 
    Cathy Hsiao 
    Carina Kohn 
    Danielle Lopez 
    Pamela Loring 
    Shanna Merola 
    Yxta Murray 
    epli pastorfield-li 
    Khalisa Rae 
    Grace Roselli 
    Amanda Rizkalla 
    Charlotte Sherman 
    Laura Maylene Walter 
    Beth Weeks 

  • Grants Awarded Aug 2021

    Stephanie Anderson 
    S. Erin Batiste 
    Erinn Batykefer 
    Lory Bedikian 
    Christina Belcher 
    Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello 
    Lily Chang 
    Tammy Delatorre 
    Danusha Lameris 
    Terri Linton 
    Lauren Moseley 
    Jae Nichelle 
    Eva Recinos 
    L. Renée 
    Helen Betya Rubinstein 
    Thao Thai 
    Preeti Vangani 
    Jane Wong 
    Mariya Zilberman 

  • Grants Awarded June 2020

    Makenzie Barron Murray 
    Doris Cheng 
    Desiree Evans
    Sabrina Gschwandtner
    Ursula Gullow
    Jean Ho
    Diane Kahlo
    María José Maldonado
    Helina Metaferia
    Farnoosh Moshiri
    Daisy Patton
    Gretchen Potter
    Kristi Ryba
    Gwen Shockey
    Kosiso Ugwueze
    Sarah Ulicny
    Michelle Wilson

  • Grants Awarded June 2019

    Traci Brimhall 
    Catherine Esther Cowie 
    Edith Daly 
    Liza Flum
    Havilah Giannetta
    Ynestra King
    Alyse Knorr
    Kristin Kovacic
    Aurora Masum-Javed
    Sarah McCartt-Jackson
    Joanne Mulcahy
    Hannah Oberman-Breindel
    Khadijah Queen
    Candice Salyers
    Susanna Space
    Adrienne Su
    Mariya Taher
    Alison Wellford
    Emily Withnall
    Annie Woodford
    Munera Yusuf

  • Grants Awarded July 2018

    Amber Caron 
    Alda Dobbs 
    Charla Elizabeth 
    Lyndsey Ellis
    Kelly Freedman
    Megan Giddings
    Josepha Gutelius
    Nia Imara
    Carol Larson
    Patricia Maciesz
    Yvette Mayorga
    Jennifer Savran Kelly
    Jackie Skrzynski
    Melissa Thorne

  • Grants Awarded July 2017

    Michelle Bowdler
    Wynne Brown
    Leila Chatti
    Wendy Chen
    Elizabeth Dickinson
    Laura Ellyn Robbins
    Tracy Fuad
    Maggie Graber
    M. J. Kledzik
    Cynthia Manick
    Jessica Mehta
    Deborah Ostrovsky
    Jo Pitkin
    Fatima Policarpo
    Stephanie Sauer
    Savannah Sipple
    Cindy Stewart-Rinier
    Emily Yoon

  • Grants Awarded June 2016

    Yoon Cho
    Kate Cosgrove
    Caitlin Masley
    Cynthia Ona Innis
    Glendaliz Camacho
    Julia Clift
    Gemma Cooper-Novack
    Yalitza Ferreras
    Anya Groner
    Kate Hope Day
    Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
    Laura Petrovich-Cheney
    Dominica Phetteplace
    Rachel Pollock
    Christa Romanosky
    Alexa Smith
    Karen Smyte
    Tegan Swanson

  • Grants Awarded May 2015
    Grants Awarded Nov 2015

    Susan Abulhawa
    Elizabeth Alexander
    Claudia Alvarez
    Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
    Shevaun Brannigan
    Janet Braun-Reinitz
    Blaire Briody
    Melissa Chadburn
    Helena Vallee Dallaire
    Rachel Farmer
    Lynn Casteel Harper
    Caitlin Hayes
    Joy Katz
    Patricia Grace King
    Jennifer Lunden
    Elizabeth Malaska
    Delita Martin
    Ansley Moon
    Lissette J. Norman
    Nina Puro
    Emily Raboteau
    Glenda Reed
    Elizabeth Wetmore
    Monica Sok
    Patricia Spears Jones
    Leni Zumas

  • Grants Awarded May 2014
    Grants Awarded Nov 2014

    Brit Blalock
    Jasmin Darznik
    Carol V. Davis
    Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
    Pamela Dodds
    Lauren Flores Fantauzzo
    Doyali Farah Islam
    Bethany Hays
    Katie Hovencamp
    Barb Johnson
    Tsering Lama
    Annie Liontas
    Sonja Livingston
    Lee Reilly
    Staci R. Schoenfeld
    Carrie Mae Smith
    Anna Vodicka
    Hope Wabuke
    Jude Whelchel

  • Grants Awarded May 2013
    Grants Awarded Nov 2013

    Kiley Ames
    Elise Atchison
    Anne Champion
    Shirl Chouinard
    Barbara Cole
    Alicia DeBrincat
    Melissa Febos
    Emily Fridlund
    Sarah Beth Goncarova
    Mesha Maren
    Monica Lynn Manoski
    Amy Meng
    Sara Michas-Martin
    Bonnie J. Morris
    Farnoosh Moshiri
    Laura Rena Murray
    Terese Svoboda
    Voltrina Williams

  • Grants Awarded May 2012
    Grants Awarded Nov 2012

    Gaiutra Bahadur
    Marion Bell
    Nikia Chaney
    Cara DeAngelis
    Laura Hartford
    Alice Lichtenstein
    Carey Lovelace
    Marit MacArthur
    Katy Resch
    Deborah Riley
    Anne Marie Rooney
    Amy Rowland
    Greta Schuler
    Susanna Starr
    Tracy Strauss
    Kathryn Trueblood
    Julie Marie Wade

  • Grants Awarded Nov 2011

    Carol Dine
    Caitlin Doyle
    Joy Ann Juvelis
    Heather Harpham
    Elizabeth Haussler
    Shabnam Piryaei

  • Mary Jo Bole
    Emily Jacir
    Elizabeth Maclaren
    Becky Siemmons
    Reesa Grushka
    Julia Fierro
    Maureen O'Brian
    Paula Peterson
    Xochiquetzal Candelaria
    Tina Chang
    Sharmita Voorakkara
    Sachiko Akiyama
    Rachel Camm
    Dorothy Wall
    Lucrecia Guerrero
    Katherine Noel
    Aimee Phan
    Kate Small
    Amity Stoddard
    Summer Wood
    Jennifer Chang
    Mia Angela Leonin

  • Vadis Turner
    Sharon Heitzenroder
    Jean Campbell
    Joan Connor
    Annameekee Hesik
    Marie Myung-OK Lee
    Evelyn Somers Rogers
    Parnaz Foroutan
    Michelle Lanzoni
    Susan Southard
    Julija Sukys
    Traci Brimhall
    Carolyn Creedon
    Alessandra Lynch
    Cori A. Winrock
    January O'Neil

  • Andrea Cote
    Jennifer Erin Hughes
    Louise LaPlante
    Elizabeth Menges
    Laura J. Bennett
    Juliann France
    Eileen Palmer
    Diana Rico
    Susi Wyss
    Latasha N. Nevada Diggs
    Pilar Gomez Ibanez
    Catherine Jagoe
    Crystal A. Williams
    Ruth Fox Blader
    Emily Raboteau

  • Diane Corbeau
    Lois Cremmins
    Adela Leibowitz
    Helen Bishop Santelli
    Amy Seidule
    Beth Rooney
    Sion Dayson
    Gerri George
    Ghida Hamze-Sinno
    Hillary Jordan
    Bushra Rehman
    Kristen Wares
    Ana-Maurine Lara
    Faith Shearin
    Francine Marie Tolf
    Laura Van Prooyen
    Beverly Bell
    Sarah Levine
    Michelle Otero
    Robin Parks
    Mary Ellen Sanger

  • Carson Fox
    Amanda Koster
    Holly Wong
    Zelda Alpern
    Susan Stinson
    Ilana Stanger-Ross
    Julia Older
    Jocelyn Bartkevicius
    Marie Hummel
    Laura Resau
    Lory Bedikian
    Melissa Crowe
    Jennifer Militello
    Cherise A. Pollard

  • Ruth Geneslaw
    Meredith Stern
    Clarity Haynes
    Dorian E. Gossy
    Maura Greene
    Kelly Magee
    Therese Stanton
    Roz Unruh
    Christina Hutchins
    Sharon Olinka
    Patricia Albers
    Patti Horvath
    Patricia O'Kane

  • Penny Herscovitch
    Karen Ostrom
    La Shonda Katrice Barnett
    Sally Bellerose
    Debra Dean
    Jennifer Dickinson
    Stella Pope Duarte
    Jennifer Sears
    Erin Soros
    Mira Bartok
    Sonja Livingston
    Bonnie T. Summers
    Elizabeth Gordon
    Kathryn Gordon
    Christine Rhein

  • Judy Johnson-Williams
    Laura Seftel
    Natalie Smith Parra
    Lois Williams
    Andria Cole
    Lynda Schor
    Elizabeth Wetmore
    Carol V. Davis
    Patricia Monaghan
    Victoria Sammartino
    Peggy Ann Tartt
    Kathy Desmond
    Marisol L. Martinez
    Jill M. Starkey
    Linda Welker
    Eula Biss
    Christine Hemp
    Hannah J. Wilson
    Robin Ekiss
    Cynthia S. Gaver
    Marilyn Johnson

  • Mary Jo Bole
    Emily Jacir
    Elizabeth Maclaren
    Becky Siemmons
    Reesa Grushka
    Julia Fierro
    Maureen O'Brian
    Paula Peterson
    Xochiquetzal Candelaria
    Tina Chang
    Sharmita Voorakkara
    Sachiko Akiyama
    Rachel Camm
    Dorothy Wall
    Lucrecia Guerrero
    Katherine Noel
    Aimee Phan
    Kate Small
    Amity Stoddard
    Summer Wood
    Jennifer Chang
    Mia Angela Leonin

  • Katie Baldwin
    Maureen Cummins
    Pat De Caro
    Cory Jaeger
    Adela Liebowitz
    Faith Adiele
    Deborah McCutchen
    Elena Schwolsky
    Elizabeth Ann Severn
    Terry Ann Thaxton
    Shelley Ettinger
    Maggie Miles
    J. Alicia Shank
    Kelle Groom
    Danielle Montgomery
    Lisa J. Parker
    Michele Thorsen
    Joan Hornig
    Susan Crane
    Janice Eidus
    Daisy Hernandez
    Aleida Rodriguez
    Maureen Stanton
    Jackie Zakrewsky
    Kate Betterton
    Marie Myung-OK Lee
    Gina L. Ochsner
    Mary Yukari Waters
    Millicent C. Borges
    Sara Greenslit
    Beth Thomas

  • D. Shiels
    Jennifer Tseng
    Cynthia Anderson
    Julie Gard
    Yvonne A. Jackson
    Caroline Patterson
    Elizabeth Sachs
    Dao Strom
    Alice Templeton
    Michelle Valois
    Fran Zell
    Yona Harvey
    Susan Thomas
    Suzanne Wise
    Shivaun Rakauskas
    Pauline Yun
    Ilana Blumberg
    Martha M. Harris
    Brenda Serotte
    Charlotte Watson Sherman
    Laraine Herring
    Leza Lowitz
    Pat Cenulty
    Madelena Monteil
    Leslea Newman
    Shara McCallum
    Marilyn Bogusch Pryle
    Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

  • Nancy Brett
    Judith Lang Zaimont
    Monica Woelfel
    Teresa Stores
    Courtney Davis
    Laura Marello
    Zana Briski
    M. Eliza Hamilton
    Robin Flinchum
    Sibyl Johnston
    Joan S. Logghe
    Christine Palamidessi Moore
    Misako Akimoto
    Donna Hennes
    Morissa Lou Williams
    Lisa Weasel
    Adrian Oktenberg
    Billie Livingston
    Sue Kwock Kim
    Katina Huston
    Deborah Stein
    Aife Murray
    Gail Siptak
    Kari Smalkoski
    Lisa Bernstein
    Patricia Edith
    Karen Bucher
    Kim Miller
    Raquel Higgins
    Mary C. Martin
    Mary Michael Shelley
    Judith Copeland
    Sorrel Doris Hayes
    Tracy Winn
    Ruth Green
    Susan Lippman

  • Catherine Gammon
    Sheila Ortiz Taylor
    Danielle Legros Georges
    Rhoda Shapiro
    Lilian Friedberg
    Marjan Helms
    Elizabeth A. Heller-Mason
    Denise Duhamel
    Lisa Natalie Pearson
    Lisa Link
    Jennifer Rose
    Letta Simone-Nefertari Neely
    Katrina Wreede
    Carol Dine
    Marian Roth
    Jennifer Kolsky
    Nancy Rapoport
    Edwidge Danticat
    Jean Schachtschneider
    Regina Keane
    Susan Eisenberg
    Marghreta Cordero
    Melissa Kwasny
    Susan Ingraham
    Martha Yates

  • Christine Heindl
    Jill Gussow
    Amanda Gable
    Margaret Kay
    Elouise Burrell
    Paula Dyer
    Elfrieda Abbe
    Amy Hill
    Adrian Nicole Leblanc
    Ivy Parsons
    Liz Waldner
    Nighat Majid
    Vera Anderson
    Achy Obejas
    Janice Gordon
    Amy Fusselman
    Mei Kum Ng
    Janet Reed
    Harmony Hammond
    Joy Harjo
    Kartar Dhillon
    Sandra Steingraber
    Ann Marie J. Bryan
    Merideth McGregor
    Susannah Briski
    Linda Gammell
    Sandra Menefee Taylor
    Lucia Stanton White
    Deborah Schwartz
    Jessica Williams
    Jennifer Jazz
    Christine Hemp

  • Kim Sherman
    Laura Kasischke
    Virginia Beth Shields
    Susan Zwinger
    Jeanne Brossart
    Rachel Kadish
    Linda Lee
    Kathleen Ford
    Mary Morten
    Margaret Almon
    Catherine Russo
    M.J. Anderson
    Donna Henes
    Leila Philip
    Miriam Sagan
    Lusia Slomkowska
    Joan Frank
    Sarah Schulman

  • Rebecca Stowe
    Sigrid Nunez
    Ann McAllister
    Jane Gillooly
    Hettie Jones
    Carol Redmond
    Jennifer Markasas Greisz
    Camille Cole Howard
    M. Corinne Mackey
    Jill Livermore
    Lynda Frese
    Julie Fay

  • Debra Clem
    Sandy Boucher
    Elizabeth Graver
    Judith Sloan
    Linda Marie
    Erika Block
    Liselotte Erdrich
    Deborah Stein
    Beverly Durio
    Theresa Tollini
    Marcia Eckert
    Lee Stoliar
    Nancy Fried
    Pamela Beere Briggs
    Deborah Donnelley
    X. P. Callahan
    Judith McDaniel
    Brown Cardwell
    Leslie Sills
    Jennifer Sloan
    Aurora Levins Moreales
    Barbara Strnad
    Caffyn Kelley

  • Carolina Pesquiera
    Erin & Lucinda The Train-ed Poets
    Shirley Lauro
    Aishah Rahman
    Juilie Clark
    Sandra Lundy
    Sheree Rensel
    Heidi Zednik
    Martha Cummings
    Hilary Sloin
    Jean Hoenninger
    Maxine Fine
    Ruth Hardinger
    Jewelle Gomez
    Terry Baum
    Patricia Gilmore
    Phyllis Koestenbaum
    Marilyn Keating
    Vickie Sears
    Irena Klepfisz
    Kathleen Abromeit
    Paula Sharp
    Paris Poirier
    Julie Checkoway
    Dean Robertson
    Gloria Vando
    Chocolate Waters
    Teresa Funiciello

  • Chitra Divakaruni
    Nona Caspers
    Nina Wise
    Judy Hiramoto
    Beth Brant
    Jeannette Muzima
    Meg Scales
    Susan Griffin
    Sue Bernhard
    C. Regina Kelley
    Nancy Van De Vate
    Lucille Rhodes
    Angela Bower
    Brenda Sherburn-Zimmer
    Terry Jenoure
    Sy Montgomery
    Chrystos
    Lucy Jane Bledsoe
    Stephanie Mendelson
    Lorena Garcia
    Laurel Speer
    Kerr & Malley
    Elizabeth Evans
    Barbara Laing
    Sarah Schulman
    Jennifer Abod
    Mary Patten
    Lisa Kanemoto

  • Carolann Barrett
    Mary Fuller
    Zoe Walker
    Judith Barrington
    Cathy Cade
    Erlene Stetson
    Theresa Tollini
    Virginia Maksymowicz
    Karen Marshall
    Mary Peck
    Kaja Gam
    Lydia Ann Douglas
    Susan Robbins
    Nizette Brennan
    Anna Kainen
    Fanchon Shur
    Millie Wilson
    Diana Davenport
    Stacey Foiles
    Jane Gillooly
    Maureen Brady
    Kate Lissard

  • Catherine Allport
    Kweli Smith
    Holly Metz
    Darlene Nicgorski
    Bettye Lane
    Shay Youngblood
    Mary Czarecki
    Harmony Hammond
    Nancy Van De Vate
    Elizabeth Seaton
    Florence Champagne
    Deborah Kruger
    Chase Morrison
    Pam Walton
    Kathy A. Perkins
    Cynthia Cohen
    Erika Thorne
    Diane Edington
    Shirley Kassman
    Phyllis A. Yes
    Carole G. Friedman
    Elizabeth Evans

  • Mary Houtchens-Kitchens
    Katharina Wilson
    Anne Finger
    Christine Berl
    Shay Youngblood
    Lesly Poling-Kempes
    Pam Sisson
    Pam Goldman
    Judy Adams
    Kyra
    Barbara Abrash
    Martha Sandlin
    Lucy Winer
    Linda Whitesitt
    Anne Lundy
    Sandy Rapp

  • Erin Younger (Atlatl)
    Sally Roesch Wagner
    Nancy Kelly
    Melane Lohmann
    Lois Maharg
    Shelley Anne Richtmyer
    Andrea Ko Harmin
    Pamela Shoemaker
    Donna Henes
    Sandy Rapp
    Juana Maria Paz
    Debra Zimmerman
    Irene June Lee
    Eileen Lotozo
    Irene Zabytko
    Lavonne Mueller
    Hilary Roberts
    Phyllis Lynd
    Meri Weingarten
    Nancy Cusick
    Susan Friedman
    Thea Schrack
    Carole Robb
    Susana Munoz

Past Grantees