Overview
- The Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation announced the winners Thursday, September 10, naming eight recipients who will each receive an unrestricted $50,000 grant.
- The 2026 cohort includes Damien Davis, Melaine Ferdinand‑King, Tyler Green, Alicia Inez Guzmán, Julia Halperin, Sarah Lewis, Jan Tumlir, and Kaelen Wilson‑Goldie.
- An independent three‑member jury of Irene Borger, Jaime DeSimone, and Legacy Russell selected the winners from a pool of nominated visual‑arts writers.
- Photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki was commissioned to shoot portraits of the recipients in their workspaces and the Rabkin Interviews podcast series will begin publishing on Wednesday, September 16.
- Launched in 2017, the Rabkin Prize has distributed about $4.1 million to date and the unrestricted nature of the awards gives writers flexible support to pursue reporting, research, and public projects.