Past
Grantees

Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions, 2022), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and finalist for both the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and author of Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press, 2020), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Bogliasco, Cave Canem, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall Foundations, as well as Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, Hawthornden, MacDowell, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. Among other honors, Ama has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts. Ama was the 2023 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum and is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award. She received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in literature.

Carson Faust is the debut author of When the Living Haunt the Dead (Viking, 2025). He is two-spirit, and an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina. Previously, he received artist fellowships from Jerome Foundation and the McKnight Foundation. His fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, Passages North, ANMLY, and Waxwing Magazine, among other journals, and has been anthologized in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage, 2023). Carson received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in literature.

Joua Lee Grande is a filmmaker and community connector with a deep commitment to elevating underrepresented voices. Her work has been featured on WORLD Channel, PBS Digital, CAAMFest, and in the PBS Short Film Festival. Her short film On All Fronts received an Honorable Mention from CAAMFest's Loni Ding Award for Social Justice Documentary, is part of a series that won a Silver Anthem Award and received a Daytime Emmy nomination. Joua was a True/False Confluence Fellow (2023), a PBS Accelerator Fellow (2023), a MediaJustice Network Fellow (2021), and a Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow (2019). She was a news editor at WCCO TV 4 News and has over a decade of experience working in nonprofits. She has also led media education programs in the Twin Cities, supporting underrepresented community members to tell their own stories. Joua’s work reflects her passion for storytelling and her strong commitment to social justice. Joua received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in film, video and digital production.

Prince Harvey is a NYC based artist, musician, and producer most famously known for recording his first album in an Apple Store. He spent most of his childhood on the tiny island of Dominica where he started writing songs at the age of eight, influenced by late 90s rappers. Since his family’s move to New York when he was 14, he has been praised by both mainstream and underground audiences for his alternative hip-hop compositions and productions. In 2017, he released an EP, Golden Child, followed by STAY BOLD: 100 DAYS 100 SONGS, premiering a new song every day for 100 days as a protest against Trump. In 2018, Prince Harvey was an artist in residence at Harvest Works and a commissioned artist at The Shed, where he began work on a new music album and series of short films. He received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in music.

Su Hwang (she/her/hers) is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega (Milkweed Editions), which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised first in New York and then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest. She works with the Minnesota Prison Writing workshop and is cofounder of Poetry Asylum, with poet Sun Yung Shin. Su received a 2019-2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in literature.

Modesto “Flako” Jimenez is a Dominican-born, Bushwick-raised, multi-hyphenate artist. His work exists in and explores the intersections of identity, language, mediums, cultures, and communities in his personal life and beyond. Flako’s recent work includes Taxilandia, a multifaceted Bushwick community tour and poetic performance experienced from the back of a taxi cab. This work received a New York Times’ Critics Pick in 2021. Flako is the founder of ¡Oye! Group, a nonprofit that serves as an incubator for artists both native and immigrant to New York City. Flako has been selected as a Princeton Hodder Fellow for 2023-2024 and received a 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts award in performing arts and theater. He is currently working on Mercedes, a multi-disciplinary art experience exploring the relationships between matriarchy and ancestors, familial bonds and inherited trauma, and how our identity can impact our mental health. Flako received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in theater.

Gamin is a distinguished soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Gamin plays three traditional wind instruments, and is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, Gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants from Asian Cultural Council, Ministry of Culture, and Republic of Korea. Gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation with world-acclaimed musicians presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. Gamin was a featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. Gamin’s scheduled Carnegie Hall début as featured soloist with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra was postponed due to COVID-19. She received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in music.

Hasabie Kidanu is a visual artist working in printmaking and film animation. Her films have been screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, MONO NO AWARE, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, and Film Madrid. She is one-fourth of Digital Ancestors: an independent publishing co-operative based in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently a lecturer of printmaking at the Yale School of Art. Hasabie received a 2019-2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in visual arts.

Simon Liu’s practice centers on cataloging the rapidly evolving psychological and political landscapes within his homeland of Hong Kong through alternate documentary forms, abstract diary films, video installation, and 16mm projection performance. His work has been exhibited at institutions including MOCA LA, SFMoMA, The Shed, PICA, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Everson Museum, Moderna Museet, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA and the M+ Museum. Additionally, his work has been featured in film festivals including New York, Berlin, Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Jeonju, BFI London, and Hong Kong. Profiles of his work have been featured in Art in America, Cinemascope, New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, and MUBI. Liu is a teacher at Cooper Union, a member of the artist-run film lab Negativeland and is currently editing his first feature film Staffordshire Hoard. Simon received a 2019-2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in film, video and digital production.

Leslie Parker is a dance artist, director, improviser, educator, and performer born in the traditional homeland of the Dakhóta people also known as Twin Cities, MN. Her multiple home/art-bases mainly include the lands of the Lenape peoples (Brooklyn, NY), and Saint Paul, MN. Leslie holds a BFA from Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University in partnership with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and The Dresden Frankfurt Company in Frankfurt, Germany. As a dance creative, Leslie highlights unique individual contributions, digs into collective memory to engage with the world more imaginatively, and embodies an aesthetic that encompasses an organic form influenced by the Black and African Diaspora: Traditional West African, Black/African American vernacular/social dance, Improvisation, and Contemporary/Modern techniques derived from multiple continents. She received a 2017 Bessie award for Outstanding performer, a 2022 McKnight Fellowship for Choreographers, and a 2021 NDP Production grant. Leslie received a 2019-2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in dance. For more details, go to www.leslieparkerdance.com.

Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay is a Lao American poet and playwright. CNN’s “United Shades of America” host W. Kamau Bell called her work “revolutionary.” She is best known for her Kung Fu Zombies play cycle. Her work has been presented by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Theater Mu, Walking Shadow Theatre Company, and elsewhere. She’s currently a fellow with the Bush Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Power. Saymoukda was a recent writer in residence at Hedgebrook and Djerassi by invitation of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. Saymoukda received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in theater. For more details, go to www.refugenius.net or @refugenius.