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The board of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the organization\u2019s ninety-sixth roster of fellows last week. Of the 175 artists and scholars selected this year from almost 3,000 applicants in the U.S. and Canada, nine are Texans, and five of these are writers. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jenny Boully<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Jenny Boully was born in Thailand and raised on the southwest side of San Antonio. The author of seven books, her most recent is <\/span><\/span>Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/strong>. She currently teaches at Columbia College Chicago and the Bennington Writing Seminars.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oscar C\u00e1sares<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Brownsville native Oscar C\u00e1sares is a novelist, writer-at-large for Texas Monthly<\/em>, and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin\u2019s creative writing program. <\/span><\/span>A graduate of the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop, he is the author of Amigoland<\/em> and Brownsville<\/em>, which was selected by the American Library Association as a Notable Book of 2004. His most recent novel is <\/span><\/span>Where We Come From<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jeff Goodell<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n A long-time contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he has been writing about climate change for more than a decade, Jeff Goodell is based in Austin. Goodell\u2019s most recent book, The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World<\/em> (Little, Brown, 2017), was a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. He is the author of five previous books. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lacy M. Johnson<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Johnson is a Houston-based professor at Rice University, curator, activist, and author of three books. Her essay collection The Reckonings <\/em>was named a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Criticism and one of the best books of 2018; her memoir <\/span><\/span>The Other Side<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lisa Olstein<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n