Awards
Tiana Clark Wins 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Mar. 18, 2020—Tiana Clark, MFA ’17, has received the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her 2018 poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood. The Kate Tufts Discovery Award is presented by Claremont Graduate University to a “first book by a poet of genuine promise,” and includes a prize of $10,000. Clark is the author...
Matthew Baker Named One of Variety’s “10 Storytellers to Watch”
Nov. 5, 2019—Matthew Baker, MFA ’12, has been named one of Variety’s “10 Storytellers to Watch” for his innovative fiction, which is slated to be developed for TV by Amazon and FX. Baker and nine other honorees were recognized at a celebration in New York City in September, cosponsored by Variety and IFP. Steven Gaydos, Variety‘s EVP Content and Executive Editor,...
Cara Dees Selected for Best New Poets 2019
Oct. 7, 2019—Cara Dees’ poem “After Arriving Home from Church and Learning Our Dogs Were Shot, Their Bodies in the Fields” will be featured in Best New Poets 2019. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers, chosen this year by Cate Marvin. Cara Dees is the author of the debut poetry collection, Exorcism Lessons...
3rd Year Fellow Alina Grabowski wins Master’s Review Award
Nov. 29, 2018—Congratulations to 3rd year fellow Alina Grabowski on her story “Confirmation,” which won the Master’s Review Summer Short Story Award!
Tiana Clark, MFA ’17, wins Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize
Feb. 21, 2018—MFA graduate Tiana Clark has won the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for her forthcoming debut poetry collection I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (Fall 2018, University of Pittsburgh Press). The prize is awarded to one first full-length collection of poems each year. Tiana Clark is the author of Equilibrium, selected by Afaa...
MFA student Sophia Stid wins Nimrod Magazine’s 2017 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers
Nov. 15, 2017—Sophia Stid, a second-year MFA student, won the 2017 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers in poetry from Nimrod Magazine. The Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers honor the work of writers at the beginning of their careers. Sophia’s work will appear in an forthcoming issue of Nimrod.
Anders Carlson-Wee, MFA ’15, wins Poetry International prize
Nov. 1, 2017—Congratulations to poet Anders Carlson-Wee, MFA ’15 and winner of the 2017 Poetry International prize! The magazine will feature Anders’s poem “Cutting For Sign,” from his collection, The Low Passions, forthcoming from W. W. Norton & Company in 2019. Anders Carlson-Wee has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, The Frost Place, Bread...
Two MFA graduates in Best New Poets 2017
Sep. 18, 2017—Chad Abushanab and Edgar Kunz, both graduates of the MFA program, will have their work appear in Best New Poets 2017. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers, chosen this year by Natalie Diaz.
Undergrads Yeatts-Lonske and Davis scoop up 2 of 10 places in Bucknell Seminar
Mar. 1, 2017—Congratulations to senior Creative Writing major Ariana Yeatts-Lonske and senior English major Marissa Davis, whose work earned each of them a position at this summer’s Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, a highly competitive three-week conference for “the twelve most stellar and distinctive undergraduate poets . . . from around the United States”! For an article...