.The recipients of the 2024 MacArthur Groundwork Fellowships have actually been actually introduced. Commonly known as the Genius Grant, it supplies a $800,000 stipend to each Other, disbursed over 5 years. Marlies A. Carruth, Supervisor of the MacArthur Fellows points out, "The 2024 MacArthur Fellows pursue thorough questions along with aspiration and function. They expose biases developed into developing technologies and social bodies and also fill critical spaces in the understanding of patterns that maintain life on Earth. Their work highlights our mutual humankind, focusing the company of handicapped people, the personality and also past histories of Aboriginal areas, the mental lifestyles of youngsters, as well as standpoints of rural Americans." Many of the 22 MacArthur Fellows this year have actually posted manuals, whether as their line of work, like young adult as well as middle quality writer Jason Reynolds, or even as a result of their job, like special needs justice activist Alice Wong. Here are actually 10 of this particular year's MacArthur Fellows who are actually writers, beginning along with those who received the fellowship for their creating.