July 28, 2015
Awards, Graduate, Undergraduate

This past spring, the English Department hosted our annual Awards Event to honor our prize-winning graduates and undergraduates.  

Undergraduate Prizes and Scholarships


Sanderson Prize
Zachary Grobe

Steinbugler Prize
Arielle Vishny

Charles A. Peters Prize
Matthew Hlady

Class of 1940 Competitions
Caroline McClain (fiction) and Ria Mai Geguera (poetry)

W. Scott Jeffery Award
Cassie Schau

Best Honors Thesis/Project Award
Michael Sirois and Zachary Grobe

Cleo Zoukis Ploussious Scholarship
Melissa Bowden

Frank Prentice Rand Scholarships
Parisa Zarringhalam and Elizabeth Riezenger

General John A. and Evangeline W. Maginnis Scholarships
Sarah Phou and Rout Asefa

Mary McGarry Morris and Margaret McGarry Chiriaco Scholarship
Devin Melendy

Mason and Susan Lowance Award
Callie Cunningham

English Opportunity Scholarships
Ashley McDermott, Mattie Adam, and Steven Gillard

Oxford Summer Seminar Scholarships
Katie Higgins, Nicole Kirsch, Anthony Maddaleni, Sarah Phou, and Bailey Soderberg
 


MFA Prizes and Scholarships


Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in English/Poetry
Colleen Barry and Rushing Pittman

Deborah Slosberg Memorial Awards for Fiction and Poetry
Ali Unal (fiction) and Andrew McAlpine (poetry)

Academy of American Poets Award
Ted Powers

Harvey Swados Fiction Prize
Steven Tagle

Cara Parravani Memorial Award
Jane Dykema

Best New Poets Award
Delia Pless and Halie Theoharides

AWP’s Intro Journal Project
Liza Birnbaum (fiction) and Andy Nicole Bowers (poetry)

 

MA/PhD Prizes


Organizers of the 2015 Graduate Student Conference:
Joy Hayward-Jansen and Nirmala Iswari

Charles A. Peters Prize
Patricia Matthews

Walker Gibson Prize
Benjamin Robert Zender

John Hicks Prize
Annaliese Hoehling

LeeAnne Smith White Essay Prize
Annaliese Hoehling