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