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 2023 Grantees and Finalists
Nonfiction Award Winners
Starr Davis
Chelsy Diaz Amaya
Aria Dominguez
Carlina Duan
May Jeong
Bethany Kaylor
Nazia Kazi
Lily Meyer
Lilly Nguyen
Lisa Nikolidakis
Lizzie Skurnick
Deirdre Sugiuchi
Poetry Award Winners
Soleil David
Alisha Dietzman
Rebecca Faulkner
Grace MacNair
Susan Nguyen
Monica Ong
Michelle Peñaloza
Edythe Rodriguez
Danika Stegeman LeMay
Lolita Stewart-White
Finalists in Poety
Emelie Griffin
Jane Huffman
Jessica Manack
Melanie Neilson
Felicia Zamora
Finalists in Nonfiction
Nell Casey
Heather Hawk
Emily Prado
Salah Saterstrom
Nicole Sealey
Debbie Weingarten
Previous Grantees
| 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
| Jasmin Charles | Stephanie Anderson | Makenzie Barron Murray |
| Elvira Clayton | S. Erin Batiste | Doris Cheng |
| Cathy Hsiao | Erinn Batykefer | Desiree Evans |
| Carina Kohn | Lory Bedikian | Sabrina Gschwandtner |
| Danielle Lopez | Christina Belcher | Ursula Gullow |
| Pamela Loring | Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello | Jean Ho |
| Shanna Merola | Lily Chang | Diane Kahlo |
| Yxta Murray | Tammy Delatorre | María José Maldonado |
| epli pastorfield-li | Danusha Lameris | Helina Metaferia |
| Khalisa Rae | Terri Linton | Farnoosh Moshiri |
| Grace Roselli | Lauren Moseley | Daisy Patton |
| Amanda Rizkalla | Jae Nichelle | Gretchen Potter |
| Charlotte Sherman | Eva Recinos | Kristi Ryba |
| Laura Maylene Walter | L. Renée | Gwen Shockey |
| Beth Weeks | Helen Betya Rubinstein | Kosiso Ugwueze |
| Thao Thai | Sarah Ulicny | |
| Preeti Vangani | Michelle Wilson | |
| Jane Wong | ||
| Mariya Zilberman |
| 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | ||
| Traci Brimhall | Amber Caron | Michelle Bowdler | ||
| Catherine Esther Cowie | Alda Dobbs | Wynne Brown | ||
| Edith Daly | Charla Elizabeth | Leila Chatti | ||
| Liza Flum | Lyndsey Ellis | Wendy Chen | ||
| Havilah Giannetta | Kelly Freedman | Elizabeth Dickinson | ||
| Ynestra King | Megan Giddings | Laura Ellyn Robbins | ||
| Alyse Knorr | Josepha Gutelius | Tracy Fuad | ||
| Kristin Kovacic | Nia Imara | Maggie Graber | ||
| Aurora Masum-Javed | Carol Larson | M. J. Kledzik | ||
| Sarah McCartt-Jackson | Patricia Maciesz | Cynthia Manick | ||
| Joanne Mulcahy | Yvette Mayorga | Jessica Mehta | ||
| Hannah Oberman-Breindel | Jennifer Savran Kelly | Deborah Ostrovsky | ||
| Khadijah Queen | Jackie Skrzynski | Jo Pitkin | ||
| Candice Salyers | Melissa Thorne | Fatima Policarpo | ||
| Susanna Space | Stephanie Sauer | |||
| Adrienne Su | Savannah Sipple | |||
| Mariya Taher | Cindy Stewart-Rinier | |||
| Alison Wellford | Emily Yoon | |||
| Emily Withnall | ||||
| Annie Woodford | ||||
| Munera Yusuf | ||||
| 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | ||
| Yoon Cho | Susan Abulhawa | Brit Blalock | ||
| Kate Cosgrove | Elizabeth Alexander | Jasmin Darznik | ||
| Caitlin Masley | Claudia Alvarez | Carol V. Davis | ||
| Cynthia Ona Innis | Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo | Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn | ||
| Glendaliz Camacho | Shevaun Brannigan | Pamela Dodds | ||
| Julia Clift | Janet Braun-Reinitz | Lauren Flores Fantauzzo | ||
| Gemma Cooper-Novack | Blaire Briody | Doyali Farah Islam | ||
| Yalitza Ferreras | Melissa Chadburn | Bethany Hays | ||
| Anya Groner | Helena Vallee Dallaire | Katie Hovencamp | ||
| Kate Hope Day | Rachel Farmer | Barb Johnson | ||
| Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins | Lynn Casteel Harper | Tsering Lama | ||
| Laura Petrovich-Cheney | Caitlin Hayes | Annie Liontas | ||
| Dominica Phetteplace | Joy Katz | Sonja Livingston | ||
| Rachel Pollock | Patricia Grace King | Lee Reilly | ||
| Christa Romanosky | Jennifer Lunden | Staci R. Schoenfeld | ||
| Alexa Smith | Elizabeth Malaska | Carrie Mae Smith | ||
| Karen Smyte | Delita Martin | Anna Vodicka | ||
| Tegan Swanson | Ansley Moon | Hope Wabuke | ||
| Lissette J. Norman | Jude Whelchel | |||
| Nina Puro | ||||
| Emily Raboteau | ||||
| Glenda Reed | ||||
| Elizabeth Wetmore | ||||
| Monica Sok | ||||
| Patricia Spears Jones | ||||
| Leni Zumas | ||||
| 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | ||
| Kiley Ames | Gaiutra Bahadur | Carol Dine | ||
| Elise Atchison | Marion Bell | Caitlin Doyle | ||
| Anne Champion | Nikia Chaney | Joy Ann Juvelis | ||
| Shirl Chouinard | Cara DeAngelis | Heather Harpham | ||
| Barbara Cole | Laura Hartford | Elizabeth Haussler | ||
| Alicia DeBrincat | Alice Lichtenstein | Shabnam Piryaei | ||
| Melissa Febos | Carey Lovelace | |||
| Emily Fridlund | Marit MacArthur | |||
| Sarah Beth Goncarova | Katy Resch | |||
| Mesha Maren | Deborah Riley | |||
| Monica Lynn Manoski | Anne Marie Rooney | |||
| Amy Meng | Amy Rowland | |||
| Sara Michas-Martin | Greta Schuler | |||
| Bonnie J. Morris | Susanna Starr | |||
| Farnoosh Moshiri | Tracy Strauss | |||
| Laura Rena Murray | Kathryn Trueblood | |||
| Terese Svoboda | Julie Marie Wade | |||
| Voltrina Williams | ||||
| 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | ||
| Mary Jo Bole | Vadis Turner | Andrea Cote | ||
| Emily Jacir | Sharon Heitzenroder | Jennifer Erin Hughes | ||
| Elizabeth Maclaren | Jean Campbell | Louise LaPlante | ||
| Becky Siemmons | Joan Connor | Elizabeth Menges | ||
| Reesa Grushka | Annameekee Hesik | Laura J. Bennett | ||
| Julia Fierro | Marie Myung-OK Lee | Juliann France | ||
| Maureen O'Brian | Evelyn Somers Rogers | Eileen Palmer | ||
| Paula Peterson | Parnaz Foroutan | Diana Rico | ||
| Xochiquetzal Candelaria | Michelle Lanzoni | Susi Wyss | ||
| Tina Chang | Susan Southard | Latasha N. Nevada Diggs | ||
| Sharmita Voorakkara | Julija Sukys | Pilar Gomez Ibanez | ||
| Sachiko Akiyama | Traci Brimhall | Catherine Jagoe | ||
| Rachel Camm | Carolyn Creedon | Crystal A. Williams | ||
| Dorothy Wall | Alessandra Lynch | Ruth Fox Blader | ||
| Lucrecia Guerrero | Cori A. Winrock | Emily Raboteau | ||
| Katherine Noel | January O'Neil | |||
| Aimee Phan | ||||
| Kate Small | ||||
| Amity Stoddard | ||||
| Summer Wood | ||||
| Jennifer Chang | ||||
| Mia Angela Leonin | ||||
| 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | ||
| Diane Corbeau | Carson Fox | Ruth Geneslaw | ||
| Lois Cremmins | Amanda Koster | Meredith Stern | ||
| Adela Leibowitz | Holly Wong | Clarity Haynes | ||
| Helen Bishop Santelli | Zelda Alpern | Dorian E. Gossy | ||
| Amy Seidule | Susan Stinson | Maura Greene | ||
| Beth Rooney | Ilana Stanger-Ross | Kelly Magee | ||
| Sion Dayson | Julia Older | Therese Stanton | ||
| Gerri George | Jocelyn Bartkevicius | Roz Unruh | ||
| Ghida Hamze-Sinno | Marie Hummel | Christina Hutchins | ||
| Hillary Jordan | Laura Resau | Sharon Olinka | ||
| Bushra Rehman | Lory Bedikian | Patricia Albers | ||
| Kristen Wares | Melissa Crowe | Patti Horvath | ||
| Ana-Maurine Lara | Jennifer Militello | Patricia O'Kane | ||
| Faith Shearin | Cherise A. Pollard | |||
| Francine Marie Tolf | ||||
| Laura Van Prooyen | ||||
| Beverly Bell | ||||
| Sarah Levine | ||||
| Michelle Otero | ||||
| Robin Parks | ||||
| Mary Ellen Sanger | ||||
| 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | ||
| Penny Herscovitch | Judy Johnson-Williams | Mary Jo Bole | ||
| Karen Ostrom | Laura Seftel | Emily Jacir | ||
| La Shonda Katrice Barnett | Natalie Smith Parra | Elizabeth Maclaren | ||
| Sally Bellerose | Lois Williams | Becky Siemmons | ||
| Debra Dean | Andria Cole | Reesa Grushka | ||
| Jennifer Dickinson | Lynda Schor | Julia Fierro | ||
| Stella Pope Duarte | Elizabeth Wetmore | Maureen O'Brian | ||
| Jennifer Sears | Carol V. Davis | Paula Peterson | ||
| Erin Soros | Patricia Monaghan | Xochiquetzal Candelaria | ||
| Mira Bartok | Victoria Sammartino | Tina Chang | ||
| Sonja Livingston | Peggy Ann Tartt | Sharmita Voorakkara | ||
| Bonnie T. Summers | Kathy Desmond | Sachiko Akiyama | ||
| Elizabeth Gordon | Marisol L. Martinez | Rachel Camm | ||
| Kathryn Gordon | Jill M. Starkey | Dorothy Wall | ||
| Christine Rhein | Linda Welker | Lucrecia Guerrero | ||
| Eula Biss | Katherine Noel | |||
| Christine Hemp | Aimee Phan | |||
| Hannah J. Wilson | Kate Small | |||
| Robin Ekiss | Amity Stoddard | |||
| Cynthia S. Gaver | Summer Wood | |||
| Marilyn Johnson | Jennifer Chang | |||
| Mia Angela Leonin |
| 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | ||
| Katie Baldwin | D. Shiels | Rhonda Hennrich | ||
| Maureen Cummins | Jennifer Tseng | Mary Ting | ||
| Pat De Caro | Cynthia Anderson | Diane Gage | ||
| Cory Jaeger | Julie Gard | Tory Dent | ||
| Adela Liebowitz | Yvonne A. Jackson | Nicole Karsin | ||
| Faith Adiele | Caroline Patterson | Eileen Myles | ||
| Deborah McCutchen | Elizabeth Sachs | Gayle Brandeis | ||
| Elena Schwolsky | Dao Strom | Farnoosh Moshiri | ||
| Elizabeth Ann Severn | Alice Templeton | Stephanie Grant | ||
| Terry Ann Thaxton | Michelle Valois | Rita A. Murphy | ||
| Shelley Ettinger | Fran Zell | Amy Shutzer | ||
| Maggie Miles | Yona Harvey | Christina Hutchins | ||
| J. Alicia Shank | Susan Thomas | Honoree F. Jeffers | ||
| Kelle Groom | Suzanne Wise | Natasha Trethewey | ||
| Danielle Montgomery | Shivaun Rakauskas | Cynthia Large | ||
| Lisa J. Parker | Pauline Yun | Lisa Murray | ||
| Michele Thorsen | Ilana Blumberg | Katherine Ann Strause | ||
| Joan Hornig | Martha M. Harris | Lili Bita | ||
| Susan Crane | Brenda Serotte | Susan Raffo | ||
| Janice Eidus |
Charlotte Watson Sherman
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Abby Remer | ||
| Daisy Hernandez | Laraine Herring | Nona Caspers | ||
| Aleida Rodriguez | Leza Lowitz | Angie Cruz | ||
| Maureen Stanton | Pat Cenulty | Nelly Rosario | ||
| Jackie Zakrewsky | Madelena Monteil | Caroline Wilkinson | ||
| Kate Betterton | Leslea Newman | Judith Arcana | ||
| Marie Myung-OK Lee | Shara McCallum | Meredith Sayers | ||
| Gina L. Ochsner | Marilyn Bogusch Pryle | Willa Schneberg | ||
| Mary Yukari Waters |
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
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Phyllis Stowell | ||
| Millicent C. Borges | ||||
| Sara Greenslit | ||||
| Beth Thomas |
| 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | ||
| Cynthia Lollar | Zainab Ali | Nancy Brett | ||
| Jeannie Carmen Crosby | Jan Heller Levi | Judith Lang Zaimont | ||
| Coleen Gragen | Kitty Tsui | Monica Woelfel | ||
| Barrie Cline | Margaret Randall | Teresa Stores | ||
| Trapeta B. Mayson | Mira Coviensky | Courtney Davis | ||
| Emily Moore | Judith Sloan | Laura Marello | ||
| Alix Lindsey Olsen | Allison Green | Zana Briski | ||
| Cheryl Strayed | Neva Vinetta Hacker | M. Eliza Hamilton | ||
| Julia Thompson | Jerilea Zempel | Robin Flinchum | ||
| Judith Barrington | Linda Thomas | Sibyl Johnston | ||
| Lora Beldon | Lourdes Perdomo | Joan S. Logghe | ||
| Beverly Bell | Barbara D. Rosof | Christine Palamidessi Moore | ||
| Diana Der-Hovanessian | Donna M. McCoullough | Misako Akimoto | ||
| Pesha Gertler | Laura S. Distelheim | Donna Hennes | ||
| Kathleen Holmes | Li Min Mo | Morissa Lou Williams | ||
| Christine Osinski | Tisa Bryant | Lisa Weasel | ||
| Lynn Pruett | Roanne Kulakoff | Adrian Oktenberg | ||
| Frances Richard | Lorraine Orlandi | Billie Livingston | ||
| Joyce E. Raimondo | Sue Kwock Kim | |||
| Candace Wiggins | Katina Huston | |||
| Debra K. Floyd | Deborah Stein | |||
| Joya B. Verde | Aife Murray | |||
| Tatiana De La Tierra | Gail Siptak | |||
| Judy Doenges | 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 |
| 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | ||
| Catherine Gammon | Christine Heindl | Kim Sherman | ||
| Sheila Ortiz Taylor | Jill Gussow | Laura Kasischke | ||
| Danielle Legros Georges | Amanda Gable | Virginia Beth Shields | ||
| Rhoda Shapiro | Margaret Kay | Susan Zwinger | ||
| Lilian Friedberg | Elouise Burrell | Jeanne Brossart | ||
| Marjan Helms | Paula Dyer | Rachel Kadish | ||
| Elizabeth A. Heller-Mason | Elfrieda Abbe | Linda Lee | ||
| Denise Duhamel | Amy Hill | Kathleen Ford | ||
| Lisa Natalie Pearson | Adrian Nicole Leblanc | Mary Morten | ||
| Lisa Link | Ivy Parsons | Margaret Almon | ||
| Jennifer Rose | Liz Waldner | Catherine Russo | ||
| Letta Simone-Nefertari Neely | Nighat Majid | M.J. Anderson | ||
| Katrina Wreede | Vera Anderson | Donna Henes | ||
| Carol Dine | Achy Obejas | Leila Philip | ||
| Marian Roth | Janice Gordon | Miriam Sagan | ||
| Jennifer Kolsky | Amy Fusselman | Lusia Slomkowska | ||
| Nancy Rapoport | Mei Kum Ng | Joan Frank | ||
| Edwidge Danticat | Janet Reed | Sarah Schulman | ||
| Jean Schachtschneider | Harmony Hammond | |||
| Regina Keane | Joy Harjo | |||
| Susan Eisenberg | Kartar Dhillon | |||
| Marghreta Cordero | Sandra Steingraber | |||
| Melissa Kwasny | Ann Marie J. Bryan | |||
| Susan Ingraham | Merideth McGregor | |||
| Martha Yates | Susannah Briski | |||
| Linda Gammell | ||||
| Sandra Menefee Taylor | ||||
| Lucia Stanton White | ||||
| Deborah Schwartz | ||||
| Jessica Williams | ||||
| Jennifer Jazz | ||||
| Christine Hemp |
| 1992 | 1991 | 1990 | ||
| Rebecca Stowe | Debra Clem | Carolina Pesquiera | ||
| Sigrid Nunez | Sandy Boucher | Erin & Lucinda The Train-ed Poets | ||
| Ann McAllister | Elizabeth Graver | Shirley Lauro | ||
| Jane Gillooly | Judith Sloan | Aishah Rahman | ||
| Hettie Jones | Linda Marie | Juilie Clark | ||
| Carol Redmond | Erika Block | Sandra Lundy | ||
| Jennifer Markasas Greisz | Liselotte Erdrich | Sheree Rensel | ||
| Camille Cole Howard | Deborah Stein | Heidi Zednik | ||
| M. Corinne Mackey | Beverly Durio | Martha Cummings | ||
| Jill Livermore | Theresa Tollini | Hilary Sloin | ||
| Lynda Frese | Marcia Eckert | Jean Hoenninger | ||
| Julie Fay | Lee Stoliar | Maxine Fine | ||
| Nancy Fried | Ruth Hardinger | |||
| Pamela Beere Briggs | Jewelle Gomez | |||
| Deborah Donnelley | Terry Baum | |||
| X. P. Callahan | Patricia Gilmore | |||
| Judith McDaniel | Phyllis Koestenbaum | |||
| Brown Cardwell | Marilyn Keating | |||
| Leslie Sills | Vickie Sears | |||
| Jennifer Sloan | Irena Klepfisz | |||
| Aurora Levins Moreales | Kathleen Abromeit | |||
| Barbara Strnad | Paula Sharp | |||
| Caffyn Kelley | Paris Poirier | |||
| Julie Checkoway | ||||
| Dean Robertson | ||||
| Gloria Vando | ||||
| Chocolate Waters | ||||
| Teresa Funiciello |
| 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | ||
| Chitra Divakaruni | Carolann Barrett | Catherine Allport | ||
| Nona Caspers | Mary Fuller | Kweli Smith | ||
| Nina Wise | Zoe Walker | Holly Metz | ||
| Judy Hiramoto | Judith Barrington | Darlene Nicgorski | ||
| Beth Brant | Cathy Cade | Bettye Lane | ||
| Jeannette Muzima | Erlene Stetson | Shay Youngblood | ||
| Meg Scales | Theresa Tollini | Mary Czarecki | ||
| Susan Griffin | Virginia Maksymowicz | Harmony Hammond | ||
| Sue Bernhard | Karen Marshall | Nancy Van De Vate | ||
| C. Regina Kelley | Mary Peck | Elizabeth Seaton | ||
| Nancy Van De Vate | Kaja Gam | Florence Champagne | ||
| Lucille Rhodes | Lydia Ann Douglas | Deborah Kruger | ||
| Angela Bower | Susan Robbins | Chase Morrison | ||
| Brenda Sherburn-Zimmer | Nizette Brennan | Pam Walton | ||
| Terry Jenoure | Anna Kainen | Kathy A. Perkins | ||
| Sy Montgomery | Fanchon Shur | Cynthia Cohen | ||
| Chrystos | Millie Wilson | Erika Thorne | ||
| Lucy Jane Bledsoe | Diana Davenport | Diane Edington | ||
| Stephanie Mendelson | Stacey Foiles | Shirley Kassman | ||
| Lorena Garcia | Jane Gillooly | Celia Alvarez | ||
| Laurel Speer | Maureen Brady | Phyllis A. Yes | ||
| Kerr & Malley | Kate Lissard | Carole G. Friedman | ||
| Elizabeth Evans | Elizabeth Evans | |||
| Barbara Laing | ||||
| Sarah Schulman | ||||
| Jennifer Abod | ||||
| Mary Patten | ||||
| Lisa Kanemoto |
| 1986 | 1985 | |
| Mary Houtchens-Kitchens | Erin Younger (Atlatl) | |
| Katharina Wilson | Sally Roesch Wagner | |
| Anne Finger | Nancy Kelly | |
| Christine Berl | Melane Lohmann | |
| Shay Youngblood | Lois Maharg | |
| Lesly Poling-Kempes |
Shelley Anne Richtmyer
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| Pam Sisson | Andrea Ko Harmin | |
| Pam Goldman | Pamela Shoemaker | |
| Judy Adams | Donna Henes | |
| Kyra | Sandy Rapp | |
| Barbara Abrash | Juana Maria Paz | |
| Martha Sandlin | Debra Zimmerman | |
| Lucy Winer | Irene June Lee | |
| Linda Whitesitt | Eileen Lotozo | |
| Anne Lundy | Irene Zabytko | |
| Sandy Rapp | Lavonne Mueller | |
| Hilary Roberts | ||
| Phyllis Lynd | ||
| Meri Weingarten | ||
| Nancy Cusick | ||
| Susan Friedman | ||
| Thea Schrack | ||
| Carole Robb | ||
| Susana Munoz |
