Amtrak announced the 24 writers chosen for its residency program on Wednesday, which offers the winners free roundtrip rides on Amtrak. Each resident will be given a private sleeper car that includes a desk, a bed and a window with a view of America’s countryside for inspiration.
Here are the chosen recipients:
Ksenia Anske, a Seattle-based fantasy writer
Scott Berkun, writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist
Jennifer Boylan, author of She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, the first bestselling work by a transgender American
Craig Calcaterra, writer at NBCSports.com
Jen Carlson, deputy editor of Gothamist
Farai Chideya, award-winning journalist and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the NYU journalism institute
Anna Davies, young adult novel ghostwriter and writer for The New York Times and Salon.com
Korey Garibaldi, doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago
Katie Heaney, editor at Buzzfeed and author of Never Have I Ever
Karen Karbo, author of the best-selling Kick Ass Women series
Marianne Kirby, co-author of Lessons from the Fatosphere
Erika Krouse, Boulder-based novelist
Lindsay Moran, author of a memoir on her life in the CIA: Blowing My Cover, My Life As A Spy
Lisa Schwarzbaum, film critic
Tynan, co-founder of blogging platform SETT
Jeffrey Stanley, playwright of Tesla’s Letters
Deanne Stillman, author of Desert Reckoning
Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and Eng
Chris Taylor, journalist and deputy editor at Mashable
Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse, Director of Community Engagement for Black Tusk Studios and author of A Microsoft Life
Glen Weldon, NPR writer, regular panelist on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography
Marco Werman, host of PRI’s The World and creator of PBS Frontline documentary Libya: Out of the Shadow
Saul Williams, poet, musician, actor and performer, starred in Holler if Ya Hear Me
Bill Willingham, comic book author of Fables series
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