"The A.C. Bose Grant has been such a gift, both financially and existentially. The grant is a reminder that the writing is what matters, and that somewhere there's an audience for it. It's helped me slow down and focus on the work, and for that I'm tremendously grateful."

"I can't express how much being awarded the Working Class Writers Grant meant... Where monetary concerns were becoming a point of stress, it gave me the space and stability to write more freely."

"The Older Writers Grant gave me validation, encouraging me to keep adding to my stack of rejections. Soon after, my story was short listed for the Aeon Award."

"The Diverse Worlds and Diverse Writers grants gave me the space to work on a series of essays and the beginning of a draft of a new memoir. I'm still so grateful for that small breath of relief."

"I won the Working Class Writers Grant at a time when I was struggling both with my artistic practice and at my day job. It gave me an enormous boost of confidence, as well as financial breathing room"

"Thanks to the SLF Gulliver Travel Grant, it was made possible for me to travel from Tokyo to Kyoto, Japan, where the anchor story of my second book, a novel-in-stories called The Love We Share Without Knowing, took place. The regions of Japan, like any country, are diverse and have their own local cultures. So it was important for me, setting a book in Japan, to be able to get my hands and feet into the soil of the various regions where the settings of the book take place. Without the Gulliver Grant, I may not have been able to visit all of my book's locales. And because of the Gulliver Travel Grant, I believe the book is better for the firsthand experience."