2025 Wisconsin Institute For Creative Writing Fellows Reading

Adams Adeosun (they/them) is a writer from Nigeria and the 2024-25 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow. Their work has appeared in magazines and anthologies including Transition, the Offing, Catapult, Isele, Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction from Cameroon and Nigeria, and Rele Gallery’s Five Years of Young Contemporaries. Their poetry chapbook, If the Golden Hour Won’t Come For Us, is forthcoming from Akashic Books’ New-Generation African Poets box set. They are a 2024 MacDowell fellow.

Jackie Chalghin (MFA: University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the 2024-2025 Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellow in Fiction. Her work was long-listed for the 2024 DISQUIET prize. She is the recipient of the Johanna Garfield Prize for Nonfiction Creative Writing and the Richard Knowles Teaching Award.

Audrey Gradzewicz (MFA: Purdue University) is the 2024-2025 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the Pennsylvania State University, where she focused on the poetics and materiality of medieval and early modern texts. Originally from Buffalo, New York, her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Cimarron Review, Smartish Pace, and The Penn Review, among others. She serves as poetry editor for The Baltimore Review.
 

Michael Kaplan (MFA: University of Iowa) is the 2024-2025 James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow. He is a writer and also other things, who is trying and failing and trying again. He is grateful to The New England Review, Boulevard, The Michigan Quarterly Review Online, The Florida Review Online, and others, for publishing his work. He is grateful to the Magid Center for the Iowa Writers’ Room Fellowship. He is grateful to his friend, Alex Denny, for convincing him to quit baseball and start reading poetry instead.
 

Winniebell Xinyu Zong (MFA: Cornell University) is the 2024-2025 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow. They are a Chinese poet and chapbook editor at Newfound Press. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Poetry Daily, the Kenyon Review, and the Margins, among others, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and AWP’s Intro Journals Project. Winner of the Meridians Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award and the Mellon Fellowship for the Urban Justice Lab, Zong previously taught creative writing as a lecturer at Cornell University, where they received their MFA.