2024 LANDO Grantees, Writers of Note, & Finalists

Grantees:

Elena Dudum I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful (Nonfiction), New York, NY More

Stephanie DeGooyer Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum (Nonfiction), Chapel Hill, NC More

Yevheniia Dubrova What Remains: Stories (Short Story Collection), Hanover, NH More

Writers of Note:

DK Nnuro Thief-man thief Thief-man (Novel), Iowa City, IA More

Elizabeth C. Wellington The Asylum Seekers (Creative Nonfiction), Wellesley, MA More

Tanvi Misra The Body Political: How borders affect the human body (Nonfiction), Queens, NY More

Finalists:

Ali Maza Only The Good Ones (Graphic Novel), Queens, NY More

Angelica Allen Matriarch (Novel), Encinitas, CA More

Clementina Ojie Jàpà (Screenplay), New York, NY More

Ellen Denny Project Qyzra (Stage play), Toronto, Ontario, CANADA More

emet ezell Sabile (Poetry), Berlin, GERMANY More

George Walker Torres Low Sky, Narrow Earth (Screenplay), São Paulo, BRAZIL More

Ibtisam Barakat A Palestinian Love Story (Memoir), Columbia, MO More

Jason Prokowiew War Boys: a Father and Son Memoir (Memoir), Wales, MA More

Jennifer Chen Underground Chinatown (Historical Fiction), Los Angeles, CA More

Kanak Kapur Song for Rani (Novel), Nashville, TN More

Marielena Hincapié Becoming America: A Personal History of A Nation's Immigration Wars (Nonfiction), Washington, D.C. More

Maz Do Ordinary Fruit (Novel), Ithaca, NY More

Melody Cooper Northern Cross (Screenplay), Los Angeles, CA More

Saba Brelvi The Squatters (Novel), Abu Dhabi, UAE More

Sabina Vajrača For Buraz (Screenplay), Los Angeles, CA More

Sandra Jackson-Opoku Black Rice (Novel), Chicago, IL More

Victor Yang Sometimes We Win (Nonfiction), Cambridge, MA More