Holly Haworth wins 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant

Creative Writing Program graduate student, Holly Haworth has won the prestigious 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant for her upcoming book. The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established at the bequest of the late Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of The New York Review of Books, with the aim of supporting writers in the fields of long-form literary and art criticism, the intellectual essay, political analysis, and social reportage. For more information, visit https://silversfoundation.org/

Holly Haworth's book, This Resounding World: A Field Guide to Listening, forthcoming from Bloomsbury, is a work of lyrical environmental nonfiction that explores how we can better listen in this time of crisis and the unfolding sixth mass extinction.

Holly Haworth is an essayist and reporter who writes at the intersection of ecology, history, science, spirituality, technology, and culture. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Literary Hub, Lapham's Quarterly, Oxford American, the On Being radio program blog, and elsewhere. They have been included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and listed as notable in The Best American Travel Writing. 

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