Congratulations to the 2026-27 Visiting Fellows & Scholars of Note!
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.
The 2026-27 Visiting Fellows are Madhuri Vijay and Ricardo Nuila.
Madhuri Vijay is the author of The Far Field, which won India’s JCB Prize for Literature, and was nominated for numerous other honors, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories. Her second novel, The Festival, will be published in 2028. At the Library, Vijay will work on a novel about a young Indian woman stranded in Paris in the late ‘60s, who falls in with a group of struggling South Asian artists and becomes an unlikely witness to their lives and the turbulent decade.
Ricardo Nuila is a writer and internal medicine doctor at Houston’s largest public hospital. His first book, The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, was selected as one of the Best Books of 2023 by Amazon, Kirkus Review, and Washington Post, and was featured on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross. His essays and stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Texas Monthly, VQR, the New England Journal of Medicine and Best American Short Stories. He directs the Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) at Baylor College of Medicine. At the Library, Nuila will research public hospitals and the historical innovations made by French physicians.
The 2026-27 Scholars of Note are Adam Leith Gollner, Julie Carrick Dalton, & Molly Peacock.
Adam Leith Gollner is the author of The Fruit Hunters (a New York Times Editors’ Choice) and The Book of Immortality (recipient of The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction), as well as several collaborative books on nature, art, and literature. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, his work has been published by The Paris Review, The New Yorker, GQ, and The New York Times. At the library, Gollner will be working on his forthcoming non-fiction book, provisionally titled The Art Sleuth (Atria Books / Simon & Schuster). He lives in Montreal. At the Library, Gollner will work on the story of an amateur art sleuth who tracks down lost masterpieces, and how he cracked one of the most confounding art heists in American history.
Julie Carrick Dalton is the Boston-based author of The Forest Becomes Her, The Last Beekeeper, and Waiting for the Night Song. She is the winner of the New Hampshire Book Awards’ People’s Choice for Best Novel, and was a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and the ASLE Environmental Book Award. Her novels have been named to Most Anticipated lists from CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, Parade, and others, and were selected as an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Book of the Month. A former organic farmer, forest manager, and beekeeper, and a TEDx speaker, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of fiction in the age of climate crisis at universities, museums, and conferences, nationally and internationally. She currently serves on the teaching faculty of Drexel University’s Creative Writing MFA program, was the University of Delaware’s 2025 Writer in Residence, and is a frequent guest lecturer at Harvard. At the Library, Dalton will work on a novel that explores cultural grief related to specific foods we are losing as a result of climate change.
Molly Peacock is a distinguished American-Canadian poet and biographer, author of eight volumes of poetry, recently The Widow’s Crayon Box (W.W. Norton) and two notable biographies, The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 (A Globe and Mail, Economist, Irish Times, London Evening Standard, and Sunday Telegraph book of the year) and Flower Diary. A Leon Levy Biography Fellow, co-founder of Poetry in Motion on New York’s subways, and originator of The Best Canadian Poetry series, Peacock’s poetry appears in A Century of Poetry from the New Yorker and The Oxford Book of American Poetry. At the Library, Peacock will work on The Poet in the Herbarium, a nonfiction journey through four plant libraries in Paris, Kyoto, New York, and Toronto, exploring the intersection of poetry and botany through historical specimens and contemporary research.
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