Fall 2023 RITM Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellows

Carina del Valle Schorske is a Puerto Rican writer and literary translator. Her essay collection, The Other Island, was recently awarded a Whiting Nonfiction Grant and is forthcoming from Riverhead. The jury described her work in progress as “poetic and politically astute…[a] profound work of cultural criticism.”...

Ruben Reyes Jr. is the son of two Salvadoran immigrants and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Harvard College. As a fiction writer, he explores how science fiction can help readers make sense of immigrants' lives, which are already dystopian, as well as issues of memory, history, and nation-building....