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