09/30/2026
We are thrilled to announce our 2026 Chapman House Writing Residents: Thea Chacamaty, Maggie Love, Punyasloka Mohapatra, and Vesna Jaksic Lowe.
Thank you to all who took the time to apply. This year’s residency will take place from November 15-20, 2026. Save the date for a reading and reception at Pawling Library on Thursday, November 19.
📚Thea Chacamaty’s short fiction has appeared in the Missouri Review, the Southern Review, the Colorado Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA from the University of Michigan and has been a recipient of the Steinbeck Fellowship, the Henfield Prize, Michigan Quarterly Review’s 2024 Lawrence Foundation Prize, as well as residencies to Yaddo, VCCA, and Ragdale. She lives in the Bay Area with her family, where she is at work on a novel.
📚Maggie Love’s fiction, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, appears in Electric Literature, Mississippi Review and Santa Monica Review. Her work has been supported by Community of Writers, and she’s an alum of Bread Loaf and the Tin House Summer Workshop. She has an MFA from UC Irvine, where she was the fiction editor for Faultline. Currently, she’s the assistant editor at One Story. Born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, she now lives in Brooklyn. She’s working on a short story collection. For more, please visit maggielove.net.
📚Punyasloka Mohapatra is an Indian poet whose work has appeared in The Madrid Review, Merion West, Gyroscope Review, Tint Journal, and Aftershock Review, among others. He is shortlisted for the 2026 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2026 Brooklyn Poets Fellowship. His poetry explores memory, violence, inheritance, and the fragile architectures of everyday life. He is currently working on his first full-length poetry collection.
📚Vesna Jaksic Lowe has been published in three anthologies, won CRAFT Literary’s Award for Excellence in Flash Creative Nonfiction in 2026, and has bylines in Catapult, Electric Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pigeon Pages, The New York Times, and the Washington Post, among others. Her work has been supported by the Connecticut Office of the Arts, Hedgebrook, Kenyon Review workshop,