.The receivers of the 2024 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships have been actually declared. Commonly referred to as the Genius Grant, it offers a $800,000 stipend to every Other, paid out over five years. Marlies A. Carruth, Supervisor of the MacArthur Fellows says, "The 2024 MacArthur Fellows work toward extensive query with ambition as well as reason. They subject biases constructed in to developing technologies and social devices and also load essential voids in the understanding of patterns that sustain life on Earth. Their work highlights our mutual humankind, centering the agency of handicapped individuals, the personality and also records of Indigenous communities, the mental lifestyles of adolescents, and perspectives of rural Americans." A lot of the 22 MacArthur Fellows this year have released books, whether as their career, like adolescent and middle grade author Jason Reynolds, or as a result of their work, like impairment fair treatment protestor Alice Wong. Listed below are actually 10 of this year's MacArthur Fellows that are writers, beginning along with those who obtained the fellowship for their creating.