UH creative writing professor named recipient of 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, will receive $625,000 grant
HOUSTON โ A University of Houston creative writing professor has joined 20 others in being named as a recipient of the 2020 MacArthur Fellowship and will receive $625,000 over a five-year span. Cristina Rivera Garza, founder and director of the UH doctoral program in Hispanic Studies with a concentration in creative writing in Spanish, joins Rick Lowe, a UH professor of art who earned the fellowship in 2014, as the two MacArthur Fellows on faculty at UH. The 21 awarded individuals will receive the hefty grant with โno-strings-attached supportโ from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. โThe MacArthur Fellowship will be instrumental in furthering ongoing projects: a series of geological writings exploring the relationship between territory and body on the borderlands and throughout the Americas. โA program in creative writing in Spanish not only makes sense, but it is also urgent.โ