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Faculty Member Nina McConigley
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MFA Program for Writers Faculty Member and Program alum Matthew Olzmann (poetry ’09 ) is a recipient of a 2021 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. 
Alumna and faculty member Dilruba Ahmed’s (poetry ’09) Poem “Phase One” was featured on Poetry Unbound podcast: 
Long-time Faculty member Charles Baxter’s novel THE SUN COLLECTOR was published by Pantheon. 
Don Colburn’s (poetry ’92) poem “The Thing About Perfection” was the winner of Ruth Stone Poetry Prize. 
Laura Egger’s (poetry ’16) poetry manuscript is the winner of the Juniper Prize (U of Mass.) 
Helena Fox (fiction 99) has won the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for her novel HOW IT FEELS TO FLOAT.
Victoria Korth (poetry ’18) won the Montreal Poetry Prize. 
Leigh Lucas (poetry ’17) won AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize for poetry.
Muriel Nelson’s (poetry ’96) chapbook, PLEASE HOLD, won Encircle Publication’s 2020 Poetry Chapbook Contest. 
Maya Phillips’ (poetry ’17) Collection EROU was selected the winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize. 
Mike Puican (poetry ’09) published a new collection of poetry, Central Air
Margaret Ray (poetry ’20) won the 2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for her manuscript Superstitions of the Mid-Atlantic.
Somayeh Shams (fiction ’14) was awarded a 2020 Rubys Artist Grant for novel “Tombak.” 
Faculty Member Debra Spark published And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing.
New faculty member Lysley Tenorio’s novel The Son of Good Fortune was published by Ecco.
Rachel Wolff (fiction ’19) was selected for the Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship.
Tracy Youngblom’s (fiction ’03) story “Three Wines” appeared in The Green Mountain Review. 
Martha Zweig’s (poetry ’98) 4th poetry collection GET LOST won The Rousseau Prize for Literature, is out from DHP/Dream Horse Press.
Jayne Benjulian’s (poetry ’13) poem “Wedding Dress” appears in the new anthology, What They Bring: Poems of Migration and Immigration.
Fay Dillof’s (poetry ’15) poem “Dear You” won the Dogwood Literary Award in Poetry. Fay received $1,000 and her poem will be published in Dogwood’s 2020 edition.
Alyson Dutemple‘s (fiction ’19) short story “Herps” was published in the Winter 2020 issue of Little Patuxent Review.
Lara Egger (poetry ’16) has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Juniper Prize for Poetry: First Book for her collection How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It. 
Rebecca Foust‘s (poetry ’10) poem “Abeyance” from the chapbook THE UNEXPLODED ORDINANCE BIN, was featured on the February 5 edition The Slowdown podcast. The chapbook was the winner of the 2018 Swan Sycthe Press Chapbook Contest, released in November and made Entropy Magazine’s “Best of 2019” list.
Carlos Andrés Gómez (poetry ’18) was selected as recipient of the University of Wisconsin Press Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry by Natasha Tretheway, nineteenth U.S. Poet Laureate. 
The Association for Mormon Letters honored “Irreversible Things” by Lisa Van Orman Hadley (fiction ’09) with a special award in literature.
Diane Kerr (poetry ’99) was selected as recipient of the University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham Prize in Poetry by Natasha Tretheway, nineteenth U.S. Poet Laureate. 
Carrie Mar‘s (poetry ’13) first collection SPECIAL EDUCATION was a winner of the Texas Review Press The X. J. Kennedy Prize.
Reine Marie Melvin’s (fiction ’10) novel THE BETRAYED won two major national book awards: the Philippines’ National Book Award as well as the Palanca Grand Prize for the Novel The Palancas are considered the country’s most prestigious literary award.
Susan Okie’s (poetry ’14) poem “
Martha Rhodes‘ (poetry ’91/current faculty) essay on the poems of Theodore Roethke appeared on Poetry Daily. 
Jason Schneiderman’s (current faculty) essay on Auden’s “Musee Des Beaux Arts” appeared on Poetry Daily. 
Christina Ward-Niven’s (fiction ’18) story “Eileen’s Hand” hand appeared in the Fall 2019 edition of the Antioch Review. 
Beverly Bie Brahic’s (poetry 06) chapbook Catch and Release won the 
Dilruba Ahmed’s (poetry 09) poem, “Phase One,” was selected by Major Jackson for inclusion in 
Elisabeth Hamilton’s (fiction 13) story, “People’s Party,” appears in the recent triple issue (winter, spring, summer 2019) of Cimarron Review.