The Hertog Fellowship
Every semester we select four or five students as Hertog Fellows. These individuals are then each paired with a celebrated writer to work ten hours a week as a research assistant. The students each get a check for $5,000, the benefits of which need no explanation.
Perhaps even more importantly, each student becomes deeply involved in the project of their mentor, gaining a deeper understanding of how research is used by fiction or non-fiction writers and finally, seeing the fruit of their own labors transformed in the published work.
Along the way, of course, each of these students forms a working relationship with a practicing writer who will have been selected by Hunter not only for their high level of achievement but their generosity of spirit.
Hertog Fellowship Writers
Under the Hertog Fellowship, Hunter MFA students (named in parentheses) have worked with the following writers:
FALL 2009
Zadie Smith (Sunil Yapa)
[others TBA]
SPRING 2009
Jonathan Franzen (Scott Cheshire)
Francine Prose (Noa Jones)
Suketu Mehta (Sangamithra Iyer)
Nicky Dawidoff (Jessica Markram)
Patrick McGrath (Brianne Kennedy)
FALL 2008
Jonathan Lethem (Richard Humphries)
Colson Whitehead (Kaitlyn Greenidge)
Andrew Sean Greer (Carmiel Banasky)
Wendy Salinger (Vanessa Malone)
Lis Harris (Cynthia Poultanovitch)
SPRING 2008
Nicole Krauss (Jessica Soffer)
Gary Shteyngart (Alex Gilvarry)
George Black (Peter Messina)
Honor Moore (Anna Marian)
Francine Prose (Tennessee Jones)
FALL 2007
Russell Banks (Liz Moore)
Patrick McGrath (Jason Porter)
Francine Prose (Annie Levin)
Frank McCourt (Maria Venegas)
SPRING 2007
E.L. Doctorow (Gabriel Packard)
Francine Prose (Ana Rodriquez)
Darin Struass (Ryan Berg)
Kathryn Harrison (Sara Nelson)
FALL 2006
Salman Rushdie (Vanessa Manko; thanked for her work, in the acknowledgements of Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence)
Toni Morrison (Aura Estrada)
Jonathan Safran Foer (Matt Mercier)
A.M. Homes (Renee Schaller)
Patricia Chao (Sophia Kim)
SPRING 2006
Jonathan Franzen (Charlie Helveric)
Richard Price (Concetta Ceriello)
Siri Hustvedt (Elaina Ganim)
Michael Patrick MacDonald (Jade Sanchez-Ventura)
Anne Burt & Christina Baker-Kline (Sheila Hageman & Manijeh Nasrabadi)
FALL 2005
Nathan Englander (James McCloskey)
Colum McCann (Emily Stone)
Jenny Egan (Jeffrey Rotter)
Kathryn Harrison (Dylan Brock)
Patrick McGrath (Geronimo Madrid) |
