Recent Grantees
 

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. Our recent Award Notes newsletters (2011-present) are posted below, along with lists of previous grantees (1985-2010). Over 700 creative women have received grants since 1985.

Full List of 2024 Grantees and Finalists
 
Grants Awarded June 2024
 
 
Fiction Award Winners 
Jenna Abrams 
Elina Alter 
Sarah Anderson 
Carrie Cogan 
Siqi Liu 
Monaa Malik 
LaTanya McQueen 
Jasmina Nogo 
Shuchi Saraswat 
Kisha Schlegel 
 
Visual Art Award Winners 
Rachel Clarke 
Rowena Federico Finn 
Coulter Fussell 
Anna Goraczko 
Morgan Levy 
Nina Mendez-Marti 
Patricia Miranda 
Kristin O’Connor 
 
Finalists in Fiction 
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 
 
Finalists in Visual Art 
Lisa Goren 
Veronica Jackson 
Melissa Grace Kreider 
Randi Matushevitz 
Paige Morris 
Sara Shaoul 
Jess Self 
Kristen Stolle 
 

Previous Grantees 

2023 
 
2022 
 
2021 
 
 
Soleil David 
 
Jasmin Charles 
 
Stephanie Anderson 
Starr Davis 
 
Elvira Clayton 
 
S. Erin Batiste 
Chelsy Diaz Amaya 
 
Cathy Hsiao 
 
Erinn Batykefer 
Alisha Dietzman 
 
Carina Kohn 
 
Lory Bedikian 
Aria Dominguez 
 
Danielle Lopez 
 
Christina Belcher 
Carlina Duan 
 
Pamela Loring 
 
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello 
Rebecca Faulkner 
 
Shanna Merola 
 
Lily Chang 
May Jeong 
 
Yxta Murray 
 
Tammy Delatorre 
Bethany Kaylor 
 
epli pastorfield-li 
 
Danusha Lameris 
Nazia Kazi 
 
Khalisa Rae 
 
Terri Linton 
Grace MacNair 
 
Grace Roselli 
 
Lauren Moseley 
Lily Meyer 
 
Amanda Rizkalla 
 
Jae Nichelle 
Lilly Nguyen 
 
Charlotte Sherman 
 
Eva Recinos 
Susan Nguyen 
 
Laura Maylene Walter 
 
L. Renée 
Lisa Nikolidakis 
 
Beth Weeks 
 
Helen Betya Rubinstein 
Monica Ong 
 
   
Thao Thai 
Michelle Peñaloza 
 
   
Preeti Vangani 
Edythe Rodriguez 
 
   
Jane Wong 
Lizzie Skurnick 
 
   
Mariya Zilberman 
Deirdre Sugiuchi 
 
   
 
 
2020
 
2019 
           
2018 
   
Makenzie Barron Murray 
 
Traci Brimhall 
 
Amber Caron 
Doris Cheng 
 
Catherine Esther Cowie 
 
Alda Dobbs 
Desiree Evans
 
Edith Daly 
 
Charla Elizabeth 
Sabrina Gschwandtner
 
Liza Flum
 
Lyndsey Ellis
Ursula Gullow
 
Havilah Giannetta
 
Kelly Freedman
Jean Ho
 
Ynestra King
 
Megan Giddings
Diane Kahlo
 
Alyse Knorr
 
Josepha Gutelius
María José Maldonado
 
Kristin Kovacic
 
Nia Imara
Helina Metaferia
 
Aurora Masum-Javed
 
Carol Larson
Farnoosh Moshiri
 
Sarah McCartt-Jackson
 
Patricia Maciesz
Daisy Patton
 
Joanne Mulcahy
 
Yvette Mayorga
Gretchen Potter
 
Hannah Oberman-Breindel
 
Jennifer Savran Kelly
Kristi Ryba
 
Khadijah Queen
 
Jackie Skrzynski
Gwen Shockey
 
Candice Salyers
 
Melissa Thorne
Kosiso Ugwueze
 
Susanna Space
   
Sarah Ulicny
 
Adrienne Su
   
Michelle Wilson
 
Mariya Taher
 
 
   
Alison Wellford
   
   
Emily Withnall
 
 
   
Annie Woodford
 
 
   
Munera Yusuf
   
       
 
 
2017
 
2016
           
2015
   
Michelle Bowdler
 
Yoon Cho
 
Susan Abulhawa
Wynne Brown
 
Kate Cosgrove
 
Elizabeth Alexander
Leila Chatti
 
Caitlin Masley
 
Claudia Alvarez
Wendy Chen
 
Cynthia Ona Innis
 
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Elizabeth Dickinson
 
Glendaliz Camacho
 
Shevaun Brannigan
Laura Ellyn Robbins
 
Julia Clift
 
Janet Braun-Reinitz
Tracy Fuad
 
Gemma Cooper-Novack
 
Blaire Briody
Maggie Graber
 
Yalitza Ferreras
 
Melissa Chadburn
M. J. Kledzik
 
Anya Groner
 
Helena Vallee Dallaire
Cynthia Manick
 
Kate Hope Day
 
Rachel Farmer
Jessica Mehta
 
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
 
Lynn Casteel Harper
Deborah Ostrovsky
 
Laura Petrovich-Cheney
 
Caitlin Hayes
Jo Pitkin
 
Dominica Phetteplace
 
Joy Katz
Fatima Policarpo
 
Rachel Pollock
 
Patricia Grace King
Stephanie Sauer
 
Christa Romanosky
 
Jennifer Lunden
Savannah Sipple
 
Alexa Smith
 
Elizabeth Malaska
Cindy Stewart-Rinier
 
Karen Smyte
 
Delita Martin
Emily Yoon
 
Tegan Swanson
 
Ansley Moon
       
Lissette J. Norman
       
Nina Puro
       
Emily Raboteau
       
Glenda Reed
       
Elizabeth Wetmore
       
Monica Sok
       
Patricia Spears Jones
       
Leni Zumas
       
 
 
2014
 
2013
           
2012
   
Brit Blalock
 
Kiley Ames
 
Gaiutra Bahadur
Jasmin Darznik
 
Elise Atchison
 
Marion Bell
Carol V. Davis
 
Anne Champion
 
Nikia Chaney
Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
 
Shirl Chouinard
 
Cara DeAngelis
Pamela Dodds
 
Barbara Cole
 
Laura Hartford
Lauren Flores Fantauzzo
 
Alicia DeBrincat
 
Alice Lichtenstein
Doyali Farah Islam
 
Melissa Febos
 
Carey Lovelace
Bethany Hays
 
Emily Fridlund
 
Marit MacArthur
Katie Hovencamp
 
Sarah Beth Goncarova
 
Katy Resch
Barb Johnson
 
Mesha Maren
 
Deborah Riley
Tsering Lama
 
Monica Lynn Manoski
 
Anne Marie Rooney
Annie Liontas
 
Amy Meng
 
Amy Rowland
Sonja Livingston
 
Sara Michas-Martin
 
Greta Schuler
Lee Reilly
 
Bonnie J. Morris
 
Susanna Starr
Staci R. Schoenfeld
 
Farnoosh Moshiri
 
Tracy Strauss
Carrie Mae Smith
 
Laura Rena Murray
 
Kathryn Trueblood
Anna Vodicka
 
Terese Svoboda
 
Julie Marie Wade
Hope Wabuke
 
Voltrina Williams
 
 
Jude Whelchel
       
       
 
 
2011
 
2010
           
2009
 
Mary Jo Bole
 
Vadis Turner
Carol Dine
 
Emily Jacir
 
Sharon Heitzenroder
Caitlin Doyle
 
Elizabeth Maclaren
 
Jean Campbell
Joy Ann Juvelis
 
Becky Siemmons
 
Joan Connor
Heather Harpham
 
Reesa Grushka
 
Annameekee Hesik
Elizabeth Haussler
 
Julia Fierro
 
Marie Myung-OK Lee
Shabnam Piryaei
 
Maureen O'Brian
 
Evelyn Somers Rogers
   
Paula Peterson
 
Parnaz Foroutan
   
Xochiquetzal Candelaria
 
Michelle Lanzoni
   
Tina Chang
 
Susan Southard
   
Sharmita Voorakkara
 
Julija Sukys
   
Sachiko Akiyama
 
Traci Brimhall
   
Rachel Camm
 
Carolyn Creedon
   
Dorothy Wall
 
Alessandra Lynch
   
Lucrecia Guerrero
 
Cori A. Winrock
   
Katherine Noel
 
January O'Neil
   
Aimee Phan
   
   
Kate Small
   
   
Amity Stoddard
   
   
Summer Wood
   
   
Jennifer Chang
 
 
   
Mia Angela Leonin
   
       
 
 
2008
 
2007
 
2006
Andrea Cote
 
Diane Corbeau
      
Carson Fox
Jennifer Erin Hughes
 
Lois Cremmins
 
Amanda Koster
Louise LaPlante
 
Adela Leibowitz
 
Holly Wong
Elizabeth Menges
 
Helen Bishop Santelli
 
Zelda Alpern
Laura J. Bennett
 
Amy Seidule
 
Susan Stinson
Juliann France
 
Beth Rooney
 
Ilana Stanger-Ross
Eileen Palmer
 
Sion Dayson
 
Julia Older
Diana Rico
 
Gerri George
 
Jocelyn Bartkevicius
Susi Wyss
 
Ghida Hamze-Sinno
 
Marie Hummel
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs
 
Hillary Jordan
 
Laura Resau
Pilar Gomez Ibanez
 
Bushra Rehman
 
Lory Bedikian
Catherine Jagoe
 
Kristen Wares
 
Melissa Crowe
Crystal A. Williams
 
Ana-Maurine Lara
 
Jennifer Militello
Ruth Fox Blader
 
Faith Shearin
 
Cherise A. Pollard
Emily Raboteau
 
Francine Marie Tolf
   
   
Laura Van Prooyen
   
   
Beverly Bell
   
   
Sarah Levine
   
   
Michelle Otero
   
   
Robin Parks
   
   
Mary Ellen Sanger
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
2005
 
2004
 
2003
Ruth Geneslaw
 
Penny Herscovitch
  
Judy Johnson-Williams
Meredith Stern
 
Karen Ostrom
 
Laura Seftel
Clarity Haynes
 
La Shonda Katrice Barnett
 
Natalie Smith Parra
Dorian E. Gossy
 
Sally Bellerose
 
Lois Williams
Maura Greene
 
Debra Dean
 
Andria Cole
Kelly Magee
 
Jennifer Dickinson
 
Lynda Schor
Therese Stanton
 
Stella Pope Duarte
 
Elizabeth Wetmore
Roz Unruh
 
Jennifer Sears
 
Carol V. Davis
Christina Hutchins
 
Erin Soros
 
Patricia Monaghan
Sharon Olinka
 
Mira Bartok
 
Victoria Sammartino
Patricia Albers
 
Sonja Livingston
 
Peggy Ann Tartt
Patti Horvath
 
Bonnie T. Summers
 
Kathy Desmond
Patricia O'Kane
 
Elizabeth Gordon
 
Marisol L. Martinez
   
Kathryn Gordon
 
Jill M. Starkey
   
Christine Rhein
 
Linda Welker
       
Eula Biss
       
Christine Hemp
       
Hannah J. Wilson
       
Robin Ekiss
       
Cynthia S. Gaver
       
Marilyn Johnson
       
 
 
2002
 
2001
 
2000
Mary Jo Bole
 
Katie Baldwin
 
D. Shiels
Emily Jacir
 
Maureen Cummins
 
Jennifer Tseng
Elizabeth Maclaren
 
Pat De Caro
 
Cynthia Anderson
Becky Siemmons
 
Cory Jaeger
 
Julie Gard
Reesa Grushka
 
Adela Liebowitz
 
Yvonne A. Jackson
Julia Fierro
 
Faith Adiele
 
Caroline Patterson
Maureen O'Brian
 
Deborah McCutchen
 
Elizabeth Sachs
Paula Peterson
 
Elena Schwolsky
 
Dao Strom
Xochiquetzal Candelaria
 
Elizabeth Ann Severn
 
Alice Templeton
Tina Chang
 
Terry Ann Thaxton
 
Michelle Valois
Sharmita Voorakkara
 
Shelley Ettinger
 
Fran Zell
Sachiko Akiyama
 
Maggie Miles
 
Yona Harvey
Rachel Camm
 
J. Alicia Shank
 
Susan Thomas
Dorothy Wall
 
Kelle Groom
 
Suzanne Wise
Lucrecia Guerrero
 
Danielle Montgomery
 
Shivaun Rakauskas
Katherine Noel
 
Lisa J. Parker
 
Pauline Yun
Aimee Phan
 
Michele Thorsen
 
Ilana Blumberg
Kate Small
 
Joan Hornig
 
Martha M. Harris
Amity Stoddard
 
Susan Crane
 
Brenda Serotte
Summer Wood
 
Janice Eidus
 
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Jennifer Chang
 
Daisy Hernandez
 
Laraine Herring
Mia Angela Leonin
 
Aleida Rodriguez
 
Leza Lowitz
   
Maureen Stanton
 
Pat Cenulty
   
Jackie Zakrewsky
 
Madelena Monteil
   
Kate Betterton
 
Leslea Newman
 
 
Marie Myung-OK Lee
 
Shara McCallum
   
Gina L. Ochsner
 
Marilyn Bogusch Pryle
   
Mary Yukari Waters
 
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
   
Millicent C. Borges
   
   
Sara Greenslit
   
   
Beth Thomas
 
 
 
1996
 
1995
 
1994
Nancy Brett
 
Catherine Gammon
 
Christine Heindl
Judith Lang Zaimont
 
Sheila Ortiz Taylor
 
Jill Gussow
Monica Woelfel
 
Danielle Legros Georges
 
Amanda Gable
Teresa Stores
 
Rhoda Shapiro
 
Margaret Kay
Courtney Davis
 
Lilian Friedberg
 
Elouise Burrell
Laura Marello
 
Marjan Helms
 
Paula Dyer
Zana Briski
 
Elizabeth A. Heller-Mason
 
Elfrieda Abbe
M. Eliza Hamilton
 
Denise Duhamel
 
Amy Hill
Robin Flinchum
 
Lisa Natalie Pearson
 
Adrian Nicole Leblanc
Sibyl Johnston
 
Lisa Link
 
Ivy Parsons
Joan S. Logghe
 
Jennifer Rose
 
Liz Waldner
Christine Palamidessi Moore
 
Letta Simone-Nefertari Neely
 
Nighat Majid
Misako Akimoto
 
Katrina Wreede
 
Vera Anderson
Donna Hennes
 
Carol Dine
 
Achy Obejas
Morissa Lou Williams
 
Marian Roth
 
Janice Gordon
Lisa Weasel
 
Jennifer Kolsky
 
Amy Fusselman
Adrian Oktenberg
 
Nancy Rapoport
 
Mei Kum Ng
Billie Livingston
 
Edwidge Danticat
 
Janet Reed
Sue Kwock Kim
 
Jean Schachtschneider
 
Harmony Hammond
Katina Huston
 
Regina Keane
 
Joy Harjo
Deborah Stein
 
Susan Eisenberg
 
Kartar Dhillon
Aife Murray
 
Marghreta Cordero
 
Sandra Steingraber
Gail Siptak
 
Melissa Kwasny
 
Ann Marie J. Bryan
Kari Smalkoski
 
Susan Ingraham
 
Merideth McGregor
Lisa Bernstein
 
Martha Yates
 
Susannah Briski
Patricia Edith
     
Linda Gammell
Karen Bucher
     
Sandra Menefee Taylor
Kim Miller
     
Lucia Stanton White
Raquel Higgins
     
Deborah Schwartz
Mary C. Martin
     
Jessica Williams
Mary Michael Shelley
     
Jennifer Jazz
Judith Copeland
     
Christine Hemp
Sorrel Doris Hayes
       
Tracy Winn
       
Ruth Green
     
 
Susan Lippman
     
 
 
1993
 
1992
 
1991
Kim Sherman
 
Rebecca Stowe
 
Debra Clem
Laura Kasischke
 
Sigrid Nunez
 
Sandy Boucher
Virginia Beth Shields
 
Ann McAllister
 
Elizabeth Graver
Susan Zwinger
 
Jane Gillooly
 
Judith Sloan
Jeanne Brossart
 
Hettie Jones
 
Linda Marie
Rachel Kadish
 
Carol Redmond
 
Erika Block
Linda Lee
 
Jennifer Markasas Greisz
 
Liselotte Erdrich
Kathleen Ford
 
Camille Cole Howard
 
Deborah Stein
Mary Morten
 
M. Corinne Mackey
 
Beverly Durio
Margaret Almon
 
Jill Livermore
 
Theresa Tollini
Catherine Russo
 
Lynda Frese
 
Marcia Eckert
M.J. Anderson
 
Julie Fay
 
Lee Stoliar
Donna Henes
     
Nancy Fried
Leila Philip
     
Pamela Beere Briggs
Miriam Sagan
     
Deborah Donnelley
Lusia Slomkowska
     
X. P. Callahan
Joan Frank
     
Judith McDaniel
Sarah Schulman
     
Brown Cardwell
       
Leslie Sills
       
Jennifer Sloan
       
Aurora Levins Moreales
       
Barbara Strnad
       
Caffyn Kelley
 
1990
 
1989
         
1988
Carolina Pesquiera
 
Chitra Divakaruni
 
Carolann Barrett
Erin & Lucinda The Train-ed Poets
 
Nona Caspers
 
Mary Fuller
Shirley Lauro
 
Nina Wise
 
Zoe Walker
Aishah Rahman
 
Judy Hiramoto
 
Judith Barrington
Juilie Clark
 
Beth Brant
 
Cathy Cade
Sandra Lundy
 
Jeannette Muzima
 
Erlene Stetson
Sheree Rensel
 
Meg Scales
 
Theresa Tollini
Heidi Zednik
 
Susan Griffin
 
Virginia Maksymowicz
Martha Cummings
 
Sue Bernhard
 
Karen Marshall
Hilary Sloin
 
C. Regina Kelley
 
Mary Peck
Jean Hoenninger
 
Nancy Van De Vate
 
Kaja Gam
Maxine Fine
 
Lucille Rhodes
 
Lydia Ann Douglas
Ruth Hardinger
 
Angela Bower
 
Susan Robbins
Jewelle Gomez
 
Brenda Sherburn-Zimmer
 
Nizette Brennan
Terry Baum
 
Terry Jenoure
 
Anna Kainen
Patricia Gilmore
 
Sy Montgomery
 
Fanchon Shur
Phyllis Koestenbaum
 
Chrystos
 
Millie Wilson
Marilyn Keating
 
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
 
Diana Davenport
Vickie Sears
 
Stephanie Mendelson
 
Stacey Foiles
Irena Klepfisz
 
Lorena Garcia
 
Jane Gillooly
Kathleen Abromeit
 
Laurel Speer
 
Maureen Brady
Paula Sharp
 
Kerr & Malley
 
Kate Lissard
Paris Poirier
 
Elizabeth Evans
   
Julie Checkoway
 
Barbara Laing
   
Dean Robertson
 
Sarah Schulman
   
Gloria Vando
 
Jennifer Abod
   
Chocolate Waters
 
Mary Patten
 
 
Teresa Funiciello
 
Lisa Kanemoto
 
 
 
1987   1986   1985
Catherine Allport   Mary Houtchens-Kitchens   Erin Younger (Atlatl)
Kweli Smith   Katharina Wilson   Sally Roesch Wagner
Holly Metz   Anne Finger    Nancy Kelly
Darlene Nicgorski   Christine Berl   Melane Lohmann
Bettye Lane   Shay Youngblood   Lois Maharg
Shay Youngblood   Lesly Poling-Kempes  
Shelley Anne Richtmyer
Mary Czarecki   Pam Sisson   Andrea Ko Harmin
Harmony Hammond   Pam Goldman   Pamela Shoemaker
Nancy Van De Vate   Judy Adams   Donna Henes
Elizabeth Seaton   Kyra   Sandy Rapp
Florence Champagne
 
Barbara Abrash   Juana Maria Paz
Deborah Kruger   Martha Sandlin   Debra Zimmerman
Chase Morrison   Lucy Winer   Irene June Lee
Pam Walton   Linda Whitesitt   Eileen Lotozo
Kathy A. Perkins   Anne Lundy   Irene Zabytko
Cynthia Cohen   Sandy Rapp   Lavonne Mueller
Erika Thorne       Hilary Roberts
Diane Edington       Phyllis Lynd
Shirley Kassman       Meri Weingarten
Phyllis A. Yes       Nancy Cusick
Carole G. Friedman       Susan Friedman
Elizabeth Evans       Thea Schrack
        Carole Robb
        Susana Munoz