"Tommy Orange, the author of acclaimed novels "There There" and "Wandering Stars," is among the 22 recipients for the 2025 MacArthur Fellows program - commonly called the MacArthur "genius grant" - the organization announced Oct. 8. Each fellow will receive an $800,000 no-strings-attached award."
""The 2025 MacArthur Fellows expand the boundaries of knowledge, artistry, and human understanding. They focus our attention on microbial worlds and distant stars, community vitality and timeless traditions, sacred and improvisational music, and shared histories of our time on Earth,""
""With virtuosity, persistence, and courage, they chart new paths toward collaborative, creative, and flourishing futures.""
Tommy Orange, author of There There and Wandering Stars, is one of 22 recipients of the 2025 MacArthur Fellows program. Each fellow will receive an $800,000 no-strings-attached award paid in quarterly installments over five years. Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for There There. The selection process relies on peer nominations and an independent committee spanning arts, sciences, and humanities, and the program does not accept applications or unsolicited nominations. Another fellow this year is UC Berkeley professor Teresa Puthussery, who researches the neurobiology of vision.
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