Edgar Kunz ’10 Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
The Guggenheim Fellows are “representative of the world’s best thinkers, innovators, and creators in art, science, and scholarship,” said Edward Hirsch, president of the Guggenheim Foundation.
Edgar Kunz ’10 has received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry, which comes with a monetary stipend to pursue independent work. According to the Guggenheim Foundation’s press release, the Class of 2026 fellows were “chosen through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants ... based on both prior career achievement and exceptional promise.” Past recipients have included Nobel laureates and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and more.
Kunz, previously an assistant professor at Goucher College, now teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published two books of poetry, Fixer and Tap Out, and his poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, American Poetry Review, and more. In 2017, he was a recipient of the prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.