HEDGEBROOK FELLOWS PROGRAM

Invited writers expand Hedgebrook’s community to include high profile women invested in authoring change through their lives and writing. Women writers who embody Hedgebrook’s spirit and mission.
Fellows stay in Meadowhouse, originally the groundskeepers cottage. In exchange for their residency, Fellows offer to raise Hedgebrook’s visibility in the world by being guests of honor and keynote speakers at our public events.

2006 Fellows
~ Ruth Margraff – playwright and finalist for the Alpert Foundation Award
~ Susan Bay Nimoy – writer, actress and philanthropist
~ Kay Sprinkel Grace – author and highly regarded national philanthropic consultant
~ Gloria Steinem – writer, journalist, women’s rights advocate

2007 Fellows
~ Carolyn Forche – American poet, editor and human rights advocate; described as a “poet of witness”. Her collections include Blue Hour and The Angel of History, and she edited: Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness.
~ Daphne Merkin – fiction writer and cultural critic; former staff writer for The New Yorker and current contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine.
~ Gloria Steinem – writer, journalist, women’s rights advocate; founder of Ms. Magazine.
~ Sarah Waters – British novelist of historical lesbian fiction. Her novels Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith have also been popular PBS productions.

2008 Fellows (list in process)
~ Naomi Shihab Nye – poet, songwriter and novelist; born to a Palestinian father and American mother; describes herself as a "wandering poet". An author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes, her books of poetry include 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East A Maze Me: Poems for Girls, Red Suitcase, Words Under the Words, Fuel, and You & Yours (a best-selling poetry book of 2006).