Jack Wang, associate professor in the Department of Writing, has been named a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. The fellowship comes with an unrestricted grant of $7,000 to support work on his novel-in-progress, The Riveters, about Chinese Canadians who served during the Second World II in an effort to gain citizenship.
This year, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), awarded $616,000 to 92 New York State artists working in the disciplines of fiction, folk/traditional arts, interdisciplinary work, painting, and video/film. Sixteen fellowships were awarded in fiction.