This year’s MacArthur ‘genius’ fellows include more writers, artists and storytellers

Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — The 2024 class of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows includes more writers, artists and storytellers than in years past. This year’s recipients of the so-called “genius grants” also include multiple scientists. The interdisciplinary awards announced Tuesday come with a $800,000 grant over five years that the 22 recipients may use however they want. The new fellows include fiction writers Ling Ma and Juan Felipe Herrera, cabaret performer Justin Vivian Bond and visual artist Ebony G. Patterson. Marlies Carruth directs the MacArthur Fellows Program and said this class of fellows seems to reflect a, “desire to tell stories and resurrect certain stories that have not been told.”