The de Groot Visiting Fellowship Program at the American Library in Paris supports writers, thinkers, and scholars across disciplines who advance dialogue, creativity, and cross-cultural understanding.
Established in 2013, the Fellowship extends the Library’s long tradition of fostering transatlantic exchange and creative expression. Each year, two Visiting Fellows and three Scholars of Note pursue their projects in Paris while contributing to the Library’s cultural life through public talks and workshops. Over the past decade, Fellows have enriched the Library’s century-old legacy and, in turn, joined the generations of writers who have found a home in Paris.
In addition to working on their own project, Fellows present a public program during their residency that engages our audience and members around a central theme. The theme for 2025-2026 is Ways of Seeing, in line with the Library’s eponymous series exploring how literature and visual art inspire one another.
For more than a decade, the de Groot family and the American Library in Paris have supported forty-four writers through a residency in the heart of literary Paris. Fellows include journalists, novelists, poets, and librarians whose work and influence have only grown since their time with us. Many describe their residency as a turning point in their creative lives and careers.
Applications for the 2026-2027 fellowships will open early February 1, 2026. Watch for updated application information.
2025-2026:
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2024-2025:
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2023-2024:
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2022-2023:
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Kate Kirkpatrick Kate Kirkpatrick is a philosopher based at Regent’s Park College, Oxford. She… MoreScholars of Note:
2021-2022:
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Dina Nayeri Dina Nayeri is the author of The Ungrateful Refugee, winner of the 2020 Geschwister-Scholl-Preis, finalist for the 2021 Elle Grand Prix des Lectrices, the 2019 Kirkus Prize, The Los Angeles Times… More
Ian Williams In 2020, author and poet Ian Williams was living in Vancouver while working on his second novel. It was from this position that he lived through the beginning of the… More2020-2021:
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Eula Biss Eula Biss is the author of four books, most recently Having and Being Had, which Cathy Park Hong calls “a revelatory and necessary primer on how late capitalism affects our daily… More
Mark Braude Mark Braude has written for The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail and other publications, and has spoken at venues including the US Department of State, the Volkswagen… More
Matthieu Aikins Matthieu Aikins has reported from Afghanistan and the Middle East since 2008 for magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, and GQ. He is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, a… More2018-2019:
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Hala Alyan Hala Alyan is an award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist and clinical psychologist whose work has appeared in numerous journals including The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner and Colorado Review. As a… More
Ian Leslie Ian Leslie is a journalist writing about the science of human behaviour, drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise. He is the author of Born Liars: Why We Can’t… More
Molly Antopol Molly Antopol's debut story collection, The UnAmericans (W.W. Norton), won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award, the French-American Prize,… More
Rhae Lynn Barnes Rhae Lynn Barnes is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University specializing in the globalization of American popular culture and racism. While at the American Library in Paris, Rhae… More2017-2018:
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James Verini James Verini is a magazine journalist who has reported extensively from Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. His reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq and the battle for Mosul… More
Vanessa Manko Vanessa Manko is the author of The Invention of Exile. She earned her MFA from Hunter College where she was the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship. Her work has appeared in Granta, the New York… More2016-2017:
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Anna Leahy Anna Leahy - "As a poet, I'm particularly interested in the ways that form and structure shape content and in the ways that subject matter may lead to particular choices… More
Doug Dechow Doug Dechow - "I’m a digital humanist who works, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, with the Center for American War Letters (CAWL) at Chapman University.… More
Jacqueline Woodson Jacqueline Woodson is an award-winning writer of books for children and young adults. She is known for Miracle’s Boys, which won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001, and her Newbery… More2015-2016:
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Lan Samantha Chang Lan Samantha Chang is a poet and author of Hunger, a collection of short fiction, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her latest novel, The Family Chao, was… More
Megan Mayhew Bergman Megan Mayhew Bergman was raised in North Carolina and now lives on a small farm in Vermont. She is the Associate Director of Bennington College's MFA program. Megan studied anthropology… More
Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. He is the author of the best selling book, Between the World… More2014-2015:
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Alex Danchev Alex Danchev was an unorthodox Professor of International Relations at The University of St Andrews. He wrote extensively on art and political violence in the modern period. Some of this… More
Susan Hiner Susan Hiner, of Vassar College, worked on her upcoming book: Behind the Seams: Women, Work and Fashion in Nineteenth-Century France while a Visiting Fellow. Professor Hiner's research and teaching interests… More2013-2014:
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Anthony Flint Anthony Flint is the Director of Public Policy at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He completed work on his book: Modern Man: The Life of Corbusier while a fellow… More