Florida State University English Professor James “Jimmy” Kimbrell has been chosen as one of 37 writers to receive a highly selective fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for 2017. Kimbrell, who specializes in poetry, was selected from more than 1,800 eligible applicants for his second NEA individual creative writing fellowship. His first was […]
Professor of English wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Florida State University English Professor James “Jimmy” Kimbrell has received a highly competitive Guggenheim Fellowship for 2016 from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Kimbrell, who specializes in poetry, will use the fellowship to work on a new collection of poems. He characterized receiving the award as “truly humbling.” “It is a great honor to […]