Congratulations to our grantees Elena Dudum, Stephanie DeGooyer, Yevheniia Dubrova, Beth C. Wellington, DK Nnuro, and Tanvi Misra!
Learn more about this year’s LANDO Grantees and their exciting projects!
Elena Dudum‘s nonfiction work, I Was Told Back Home Would Be Beautiful, explores how the inheritance of the Palestinian refugee experience shapes Palestinians in the diaspora and how they understand homeland, citizenship, and identity.
Stephanie DeGooyer‘s nonfiction piece, Offshore: The Rise and Fall of Asylum, foretells the unraveling of the global asylum system and return to the colonial practice of offshoring unwanted populations.
Yevheniia Dubrova‘s short story collection, What Remains: Stories from Ukraine, is a collection of interconnected short fiction spanning the past twenty years of Ukraine’s independence and exploring displacement, loss, memory, and what endures.
In Elizabeth C. Wellington’s work of creative non-fiction, The Asylum Seekers, testimonials and stories of asylum seekers in ICE detention centers reveal unconscionable abuses in the prisons where they are detained.
In DK Nnuro‘s novel, Plume Hats and Swords, a Ghanaian immigrant living in Clayton County, Iowa, becomes morally compromised after several setbacks and makes a last-ditch effort to achieve the so-called American Dream.
In Tanvi Misra‘s nonfiction work, borders surveil, map, inspect and ultimately disappear human bodies on the move. The Body Political explains how and why that harms society as a whole.