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Rachael Lyon and Kimberly Burge Awarded 2009-2010 Fulbrights
Rachael Lyon has been awarded a 2009-10 Fulbright grant to Vienna, Austria for her proposal “The Women of Café Raimund: A Poetry Translation Project.” She’ll be translating female poets who wrote in Vienna after 1945 and studying their perspectives on Austria’s involvement in WWII as well as the role of women in a post-war Austria. These female voices and their perspectives, which have become crucial to contemporary Austrian literature, do not extend far beyond Austria’s borders. Rachael hopes to share the work of these poets with a broader American readership and extend it as an offering to contemporary female writers everywhere.
Kimberly Burge has been awarded a 2009-2010 Fulbright grant to South Africa. In January, Kimberly will begin a Fulbright Fellowship in creative writing to South Africa, where she will be researching and writing a book about a year in the life of girls in Gugulethu township outside Cape Town. She’ll also be working with girls to form a creative writing club, helping them learn to tell their own stories.