The Ithaca Voice reported on recipients of the Office of Engagement Initiatives' Engaged Research Grants in an article, "Cornell awards $192K in grants to Ithaca-based research projects touching on race, COVID-19." Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, an associate professor of literatures in English, is leading one of the four winning projects, "Trap Door."
"Cornell University has awarded four grants to local research projects in hopes to 'address opioid use, increase food security, build a greener construction industry, and share stories of Ithaca's Black pioneers.'"
Read the full article here.
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon is the author of Open Interval, a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Prize, and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as the chapbooks Leading with a Naked Body with Leela Chantrelle and Poems in Conversation and a Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander. She has been awarded fellowships from Cave Canem, the Lannan Foundation, and Civitella Ranieri. She has written plays and lyrics for The Cherry, an Ithaca arts collective, and in 2018, her work was featured in Courage Everywhere, celebrating women’s suffrage and the fight for political equality, at National Theatre London.
