NEA Grant bundle

On Friday, May 2, Deep Vellum was one of hundreds of nonprofit arts organizations who received notice that our National Endowment for the Arts grant had been terminated by the Trump administration. Our $20,000 NEA award this grant cycle was approved in January 2025, and was awarded to offset printing costs and compensate authors and translators for four titles to be published this calendar year. Those titles are:  Carapace Dancer, a trilingual poetry collection in English, Spanish, and Zapotec, by award-winning Mexican writer Natalia Toledo, translated by Clare Sullivan. This book published on January 21, 2025, and is available now. Juvenilia, the North American poetry debut of New Zealand “literary phenomenon” Hera Lindsay Bird (—Elle). This book is set to publish on June 3, 2025. We still hope to bring Bird to the United States for a book tour this fall with support from the New Zealand government. Schattenfroh, the 1,001 page German maximalist novel that has already taken the litera