UAB English professor awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

UAB English professor awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowship Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, MFA, associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is one of 35 poets to receive a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Slaughter specializes in teaching creative writing, late American and British literature, and composition in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of English.

Around 1,600 people apply every two years for a fellowship, but fewer than 3 percent of applicants are selected. The grant from the independent federal agency totals $25,000, which allows recipients to have time for research, writing and travel.

Slaughter is author of the poetry collections, “a lesson in smallness” (2015), which was a finalist for the Rousseau Prize for Literature and the Eric Hoffer Award in poetry, and, Spectacle (2022), forthcoming from Panhandler Books and the University Press of Florida. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Harvard Review, Image, North American Review, Pleiades, 32 Poems, RHINO, Kenyon Review Online and Tupelo Quarterly, and many other places. Slaughter is also the editor-in-chief of NELLE, a literary journal published by UAB that celebrates and publishes writing by women. 

Since 1967, the National Endowment for the Arts’ funding to American artists totals more than $56 million in grants to more than 3,600 Creative Writing Fellowship recipients.