May 1, 2014
Awards, Graduate, Undergraduate

The Department of English celebrated it's talented undergraduate and graduate students at its annual spring awards ceremony. And the winners are...

Undergraduate Prizes and Scholarships

Sanderson Prize: Christina Freitas

Steinbugler Prize: Rowena Leung

Peters Prize: Gregory Schwartz

Class of 1940 Competitions in Poetry and Fiction: Stevi-Lee Alver, Thomas Barnes, and Shamiram Barooshian

W. Scott Jeffery Award: Alex Bloom, Rachel Halpern

Cleo Zoukis Ploussious Scholarship: Michelle Guedes

Frank Prentice Rand Scholarships: Ryan McDonald, Eliza Jane Mitchell

General John A. and Evangeline W. Maginnis Scholarships: Callie Cunningham, Madlyn MacKillop

Mary McGarry Morris and Margaret McGarry Chiriaco Scholarship: Kimberly Cabrera

Mason and Susan Lowance Award: Steven Gillard

Oxford Summer Seminar Scholarships: Alexander Cleaves, Julie Locke, Ryan Maloney, Devin Melendy, and Michael Sirois

English Opportunity Fund Awards: Nicole Blackwood, Maxwell Heath, and Thalia Peña

MFA Prizes and Awards

Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship in English Poetry: Bryan Beck, Avram Kline

Deborah Slosberg Memorial Awards for Fiction and Poetry: Fiction: Steven Tagle, Poetry: Andrew MacDonald

Academy of American Poets Award: Delia Pless

Delaney Fellowship in Fiction: Rachel Hinkel

Harvey Swados Fiction Prize: Kate Berson

Cara Parravani Memorial Award: Liza Birnbaum

Skolfield/Goeckel Poetry Prize: Blake Bergeron

MA/Ph.D. Prizes

Organizers of this year’s Graduate Student Conference: Emily Campbell and Katelyn Perillo

Charles A. Peters Prize: Elizabeth Fox

Walker Gibson Prize: Daniel Ehrenfeld

John Hicks Prize: Joy Jansen

LeeAnne Smith White Essay Prize: Lauren Silber