Amy Stolls has been appointed director of literature for the National Endowment for the Arts. She has served as acting director of literature since May 2013 and will continue to oversee the NEA's grant awards in literature, which includes grants to organizations for publishing and audience and professional development projects, as well as for fellowships to individual poets, prose writers and translators. Stolls is the author of the YA novel Palms to the Ground and another novel, The Ninth Wife.
