Graduate Alumni : MFA Program in Creative Writing
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MFA Alumni: Recent Achievements
2009
Uwem Akpan '05 has published Say You're One of Them, the first collection of short stories to be selected for Oprah's Book Club.
Nami Mun '07 had her debut book, Miles from Nowhere, selected for Booklist's Top Ten First Novels: 2009.
Valerie Laken '01 had her debut book, Dream House, selected for Booklist's Top Ten First Novels: 2009.
Vievee Francis '09 was awarded a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for 2009.
Randa Jarrar '08 has had the paperback edition of her debut novel, A Map of Home, published by Penguin. It is available in six languages.
Scott Lasser '89 has had The Year that Follows published by Knopf.
2008
Jesmyn Ward '05 has published her first book, Where the Line Bleeds, with Agate Bolden.
Victoria Chang '92 has published Salvinia Molesta, her second collection of poetry.
Darcie Dennigan '02 has published Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse. The manuscript won the 2006-2007 Fordham University Press Poets Out Loud Prize.
Sara Houghteling '03 has a debut novel, Pictures at an Exhibition, scheduled for publication by Knopf in 2009.
Laura Kasischke '87 had her novel The Life Before Her Eyes adapted to film and released in April of 2008. Her poetry collection Lilies Without was published by Ausable Press in 2007.
Valerie Laken '01 has a debut novel, Dream House, scheduled for publication by HarperCollins in 2009.
Raymond McDaniel '95 has published Saltwater Empire, his second collection of poetry, through Coffee House Press.
Karyna McGlynn '06 has a new chapbook, Alabama Steve, published by Destructible Heart Press. Her Kathryn A. Morton prizewinning I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl will be published by Sarabande Books in 2009.
Paula Mclain '96 has published her debut novel, A Ticket to Ride, through Ecco.
Nami Mun '06 has a debut book, Miles from Nowhere, scheduled to come out through Riverhead in 2008.
Preeta Samarasan '06 has published her debut novel, Evening Is the Whole Day, through Houghton Mifflin.
Michael Shilling '06 has a debut book, Rock Bottom, scheduled to come out through Hachette Book Group in 2009.
Porter Shreve '98 has a new novel, When the White House Was Ours, published by Mariner Books.
2007
Travis Holland '03 has had his first novel, The Archivist's Story, published by Dial Press.
Jaswinder Bolina '03 has won the Colorado Prize for Poetry for Carrier Wave, which will be published by the University Press of Colorado.
Phillip Crymble '02 has a new poetry collection, Wide Boy, published by Lapwing Publications.
Matthew Hittinger '04 has a new poetry chapbook, Pear Slip, winner of the Spire Press Spring 2006 Chapbook Award. A previous chapbook, Narcissus Resists, won the Beauty/Truth Press 2007 Chapbook Competition.
Tung-Hui Hu '03 has published a poetry collection, Mine, through Ausable Press.
Rattawut Lapcharoensap '03 has been named a Granta Best Young American Novelist.
Sebastian Matthews '93 has published his poetry collection We Generous through Red Hen Press.
Christine Montross '98 has a new nonfiction title, Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab, published by Penguin.
Jess Row '01 has been named a Granta Best Young American Novelist.
2006
Jason Bredle '00 has won the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize for his collection of poems, Standing in Line for the Beast.
2005
Susan Jane Gilman '93 has published her second book, a memoir entitled Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress.
Suzanne Hancock '04 has published a collection of poems, Another Name for Bridge, through Mansfield Press.
Stefan Kiesbye '01 has published a novel, Next Door Lived a Girl.
Elizabeth Kostova '04 has published a novel, The Historian.
Rattawut Lapcharoensap '03 has published a collection of stories, Sightseeing.
Sean Norton '01 has published a collection of poems, Bad With Faces, through Red Morning Press.
Jess Row '01 has published a collection of stories, The Train to Lo Wu.
Porter Shreve '98 has a new novel coming out, Drives Like a Dream.
2004
Jason Bredle '00 has won the Diagram/New Michigan Press Prize for his collection of poetry, A Twelve Step Guide.
Laura Kasischke '87, U-M Creative Writing faculty member, has published a new collection of poems, Gardening in the Dark.
Jardine Libaire '97 has published a novel, Here Kitty Kitty.
William Lychack '91 has published a novel, The Wasp Eater.
Sebastian Matthews '93 has published a memoir, Weeding My Father's Garden.
Raymond McDaniel '95 has published a collection of poems, Murder (a violet).
Elwood Reid '96 has published his fourth book, D.B., a novel.
MFA Alumni: Published Literary Books
(in alphabetical order)
Thomas J. Anderson, III '88
At Last Round Up, chapbook of poems, Lift, 1996Laurence Barrett '89
Gambling with History: Ronald Reagan in the White House, Doubleday, 1983
Amy Barry '97
Asylum, poems, University of Pittsburgh, 2001
Controvertibles, poems, University of Pittsburgh, 2004Scott Beal '96
Two Shakespearean Madwomen vs. the Detroit Red Wings, chapbook of poems, White Eagle Coffee Store, 1999Jaswinder Bolina '03
Carrier Wave, poems, University Press of Colorado, 2006
Jason Bredle '00
A Twelve Step Guide, poems, Diagram/New Michigan, 2004
Standing in Line for the Beast, poems, New Issues, 2006Michael Byers '96
Long for this World, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2003
The Coast of Good Intentions, stories, Houghton-Mifflin, 1998Brenda Cardenas '95
Between the Heart and the Land/ Entre el corazon y la tierra: Latina Poets in the Midwest (co-editor), anthology, March/Abrazo, 2001Victoria Chang '92
Salvinia Molesta, poems, University of Georgia, 2008
Circle, poems, Southern Illinois University, 2005Susan Comninos '91
Poems featured in The Blueline Anthology, Syracuse University, 2004
Sara Corbett '92
Venus to the Hoop : A Gold-Medal Year in Women's Basketball, Doubleday, 1997Arthur Corriveau '94
Housewrights, novel, Penguin, 2002Phillip Crymble '02
Wide Boy, poems, Lapwing, 2007
Jose Dalisay '88
The Lavas: A Filipino Family, Anvil, 1999
The Best of Barflys, Anvil, 1997
The Island, Ayals Foundation, 1996
Penmanship and Other Stories, Cacho, 1995
Six Modern Filipino Heroes, Anvil, 1993
Sarcophagus and Other Stories, University of the Philippines, 1992
Killing Time in a Warm Place, Anvil, 1992
Oldtimer and Other Stories, Asphodel, 1984Francesca Delbanco '00
Ask Me Anything, Norton, 2005
Midnight in Manhattan, Orion, 2005Darcie Dennigan '02
Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse, poems, Fordham, 2008Sharon Dilworth '88
Women Drinking Benedictine, stories, Ohio State University, 1999
The Long White, stories, University of Iowa (hardcover); W.W. Norton (paperback), 1988
David Edwards '90
Burning All Illusions: A Guide to Personal and Political Freedom, South End, 1996
Free to be Human: Intellectual Self-Defense in an Age of Illusions, Green, 1995John Flynn '86
Washing Apples In Streams, chapbook of poems, So-called, 2000
Moments Between Cities, poems, Edwin Mellen, 1997
John Fulton '97
More than Enough, novel, Picador USA, 2002
Retribution, stories, Picador USA, 2001Gail Gilliland '87
The Demon of Longing: Stories, Carnegie Mellon University, 2001
Being a Minor Writer, University of Iowa, 1994
Susan Gilman '93
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress, memoir, Warner, 2005
Kiss My Tiara, essays and pieces, Warner, 2001Paula K. Gover '87
White Boys and River Girls, stories, Algonquin, 1995
A Woman Like Me, Algonquin, 1994
Alyson Hagy '85
Graveyard of the Atlantic, stories, Graywolf, 2000
Keeneland, novel, Simon and Schuster, 2000
Hardware River, stories, Poseidon, 1991
Madonna on Her Back, stories, Small Press Distribution, 1986Kathleen Halme '86
Equipoise, poems, Sarabande, 1998
Every Substance Clothed, poems, University of Georgia, 1995
The Everlasting Universe of Things, chapbook of poems, North Carolina Writers' Network, 1994Suzanne Hancock '04
Another Name for Bridge, poems, Mansfield, 2005
Miles Harvey '91
The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, nonfiction, Broadway, 2000, G. K. Hall & Co. (largeprint edition), 2001Josh Henkin '93
Swimming Across the Hudson, novel, Putnam & Sons, 1997Matthew Hittinger '04
Pear Slip, chapbook of poems, Spire, 2007Tung-Hui Hu '03
Mine, poems, Ausable, 2007
The Book of Motion, poems, University of Georgia, 2003
Stewart Ikeda '92
What the Scarecrow Said, Harper Collins/Regan, 1996Kimberly Kafka '85
Skin Contact, novel, Dutton, 2002
True North, novel, Dutton, 2000 (paperback 2001)
Laura Kasischke '87
Boy Heaven, Harper, 2008
Feathered, poems, Harper, 2008
Lilies Without, poems, Ausable, 2007
Be Mine, Harvest, 2007
Gardening in the Dark, poems, Ausable, 2004
Dance and Disappear, poems, University of Massachusetts, 2002
What It Wasn't, Carnegie-Mellon, 2002
The Life Before Her Eyes, novel, Harcourt Brace, 2002; Harvest Books, (paperback), 2002
White Bird in a Blizzard, novel, Hyperion, 1999
Fire & Flower, poems, Alice James, 1998
Suspicious River, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 1996; Mariner Books (paperback), 1997
Housekeeping in a Dream, poems, Carnegie-Mellon, 1995
Wild Brides, poems, New York University, 1992
Brides, Wives, and Widows (Herland, No. 15), American Studies, 1992Josie Kearns '94
New Numbers, poems, New Issues, 2000; March Street, 1995
Life After the Line, Wayne State University, 1990
Stefan Kiesbye '01
Next Door Lived a Girl, novel, Low Fidelity, 2005Judith Kirscht '85
Engaging Inquiry: Research and Writing in the Disciplines with Mark Schlenz, Prentice Hall, 2001Elizabeth Kostova '04
The Historian, novel, Little, Brown, 2005Rattawut Lapcharoensap '03
Sightseeing, stories, Grove, 2005Kate Larrabee '94
An Everyday Savior, novel, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002
Scott Lasser '89
Battle Creek, novel, Weisbach/William Morrow, 1999; Harper-Perennial (paperback), 2000Jardine Libaire '97
Here Kitty Kitty, novel, Little, Brown, 2004Michael Loncar '95
66 Galaxie, poems, Middlebury College, 1998
Deanne Lundin '97
The Ginseng Hunter's Notebook, poetry, New Issues, 1999William Lychack '91
The Wasp Eater, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Games People Play, Children's Press, 1995 (England), 1996 (Russia)
Daniel Lyons '92
Dog Days, novel, Simon and Schuster, 1998
The Last Good Man, novel, University of Massachusetts, 1993
The First Snow, stories, University of Massachusetts, 1993Sebastian Matthews '93
We Generous, poems, Red Hen, 2007
Coming to Flood, chapbook of poems, Hollyridge, 2005
Weeding My Father's Garden, memoir, W.W. Norton, 2004
The Green Man Walks Across America, poems, Salmon, 2003
James Mayes '92
Small Favors, stories, Alyson, 1994, (paperback) 1998Raymond McDaniel '95
Saltwater Empire, poems, Coffee House, 2008
Murder (a violet), poems, Coffee House, 2004Karyna McGlynn '06
Alabama Steve, poems, Destructible Heart, 2008
Scorpionica, chapbook of poems, New Michigan, 2007
Paula McLain '96
A Ticket to Ride, novel, Ecco, 2008
Stumble, Gorgeous, poems, New Issues, 2005
Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses: A Memoir, Little, Brown, 2003
Less of Her, poems, New Issues, 1999
Sarah Messer '91
Bandit Letters: Poems, New Issues, 2001
Red House: A Memoir of Place, Viking, 2002Christine Montross '98
Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab, nonfiction, Penguin, 2007Marc Nesbitt '97
Gigantic, stories, Grove, 2002Sean Norton '01
Bad With Faces, poems, Red Morning, 2005Patrick O'Keeffe '00
The Hill Road, novel, Viking, 2005
Michael Paterniti '91
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain, Dial, 2000; G K Hall & Co. (largeprint), 2000; Dell (paperback), 2001Diane Raptosh '86
Labor Songs, poems, Guernica, 1999
Just West of Now, poems, Guernica, 1992
Elwood Reid '96
D.B., novel, Doubleday, 2004
Midnight Sun, novel, Doubleday, 2000; Anchor (paperback), 2002
What Salmon Know, stories, Doubleday, 1999
If I Don't Six, novel, Doubleday, 1998John Reinhard '90
On the Road to Patsy Cline, poems, New Rivers, 1996
Burning the Prairie, poems, New Rivers, 1988
Kathryn Reiss '88
The Strange Case of Baby H (History Mysteries, 18), Pleasant Company, 2002
Paint By Magic, Harcourt, 2002
The Riddle of the Prairie Bride, Pleasant Company, 2001
Paperquake: A Puzzle, Harcourt Brace, 1998
Ghost in the Dollhouse Trilogy: Dollhouse of the Dead, The Headless Bride, Rest in Peace, Scholastic, 1997
Pale Phoenix, Harcourt Brace, 1994
Dreadful Sorry, Harcourt Brace, 1993
The Glass House People, Harcourt Brace, 1992
Time Windows, Harcourt Brace, 1991Paisley Rekdal '96
The Invention of the Kaleidoscope, chapbook of poems, Black Warrior Review, 2003
Six Girls Without Pants: Poems, Eastern Washington University, 2002
The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee : Observations on Not Fitting In, essays, Pantheon, 2000; Vintage Books (paperback) 2002
A Crash of Rhinos, poems, University of Georgia, 2000
Rebecca Reynolds '91
Daughter of the Hangnail, poems, New Issues, 1997William Rice '88
Public Discourse and Academic Inquiry, Garland, 1996
Jess Row '01
The Train to Lo Wu, stories, Dial, 2005
Gay Rubin '89
On a Good Day, stories, Plain View, 1998Preeta Samarasan '06
Evening Is the Whole Day, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Ruth Schwartz '85
Edgewater, poems, Harper Perennial, 2002
Singular Bodies, poems, Anhinga, 2001
Accordian Breathing and Dancing, University of Pittsburgh, 1996; (paperback) 1995
Christina Shea '89
Moira's Crossing, novel, St. Martin's, 2000Marc J. Sheehan '86
Greatest Hits, poems, New Issues, 1998
The Cursive World, poems, Ridgeway, 1991
Spencer Short '97
Tremolo: Poems, Harper Collins, 2001Porter Shreve '98
When the White House Was Ours, novel, Mariner, 2008
Drives Like a Dream, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2005
The Obituary Writer, novel, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
Glori Simmons '97
Graft, poems, Truman State University, 2001Susan Skramstad '88
The Singing Teacher, novel, Algonquin, 1992Lynn Stanley '00
Gravity Claims Us, chapbook of poems, Folly Cove, 1998
Leah Stewart '96
Body of a Girl, Viking, 2000; Penguin USA (paperback), 2001Sarah Stone '98
The True Sources of the Nile, novel, Doubleday, 2002
Nicklaus Suino '88
Arts of Strength, Arts of Serenity, Weatherhill, 1996
Practice Drills for Japanese Swordsmanship, Weatherhill, 1995
The Art of Japanese Swordsmanship, Weatherhill, 1994Patricia Ward '95
The Bullet Collection, novel, Graywolf, 2003Suzanne Wise '94
The Kingdom of the Subjunctive, poems, Alice James, 2000
David Wolf '91
Open Season, poems, Center Press, 1999Simone Zelitch '86
Moses in Sinai, novel, Black Heron, December 2001
Louisa, novel, Putnam, 2000; Berkley (paperback), 2001
The Confessions of Jack Straw, Black Heron, 1991
MFA Alumni: Significant Honors and Awards
(in alphabetical order)
Peggy Adler '00
U-M Ben Prize for Teaching, 2007Marie Ashley-France '93
The MacGuffin Award in Poetry, 1st Place, Schoolcraft College, 1994Amy Barry '97
University of Wisconsin's Institute for Creative Writing Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow, 1999
Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, 1997-99Jaswinder Bolina '03
Colorado Prize for Poetry for Carrier Wave, 2006Michael Byers '96
Friends of American Writers Literary Award for Long for this World
Academy of Arts & Letters Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction for The Coast of Good Intentions
Whiting Prize for The Coast of Good Intentions
New York Time's Notable Books, 1998, for The Coast of Good Intentions
PEN/Hemingway Award (finalist) for The Coast of Good Intentions
Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in Fiction, 1996-98Victoria Chang '92
Ploughshares Cohen Award for Poetry, 2007Jose Dalisay '88
University of East Anglia's David T K Wong Fellowship, England, 1999
Cambridge Seminar Fellowship, UK, 1998
Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, Scotland, 1994Tina Datsko '85
Public Corporation for the Arts honor for screenplay, La Paz, 1990
Los Angeles Arts Council Award, 1989Darcie Dennigan '02
Fordham University Press Poets Out Loud Prize, 2006-2007Sharon Dilworth, '88
Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press, 1993 & 1995
Distinguished Short Story named in Best American Short Stories, 1990
Iowa Award for Short Fiction for The Long White, 1988Melodie Edwards '03
First Prize in the Crazyhorse Nonfiction Contest, 2003John Flynn '86
H.G. Roberts Foundation, First Place in Personal Essay, 1990Paula Gover '87
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Creative Writing, 1996
Balch Award for best story published by The Virginia Quarterly Review for "White Boys and River Girls," 1992Paul Graham '01
Dana Literary Award in the Novel for A Trained Voice, 2005Alyson Hagy '85
Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, 1994
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Program's Syndicated Fiction Program, 1994Kathleen Halme '86
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1997-98
Balcones Poetry Prize, 1996
University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series, 1995
National Endowment for the Humanities, Modern Poetry Association, and the American Library Association' s Poets in Person Grant, 1995
North Carolina Writers' Network Harperprints Competition winner for The Everlasting Universe of Things, 1994Michael Haskell '99
Whiting Fellowship, 1999Joshua Henkin '93
James Fellowship for a Novel in Progress for Swimming across the Hudson, 1997
PEN Syndicated Fiction Award for "Juggling," 1993
National Public Radio's "The Sound of Writing" broadcast "Juggling," 1993
Story selected for nationwide syndication in the annual PEN/Syndicated Fiction Project, 1992Sara Houghteling '03
Steinbeck Fellow, San Jose State University, 2005Tung-Hui Hu '03
The Book of Motion selected for the Contemporary Poetry Series, 2003Scott Hutchins '01
Capote Fellow, Wallace Stegner Program, Stanford University, 2003Susan Hutton '96
Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, 1996-98Stewart Ikeda '92
Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Authors Award Series (finalist) for What the Scarecrow Said, 1997Nathan Jones '03
Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 2003-4Laura Kasischke '87
Alice James Books' Beatrice Hawley Award, 1998
Individual Arts Grant for Women from Money for Women/ Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, 1995
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1994
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award by the Poetry Society of America, 1993
Pushcart Prize for "Woman Kills Sweetheart with Bowling Ball," 1992
Passages North's Michigan Sesquicentennial Poetry Competition, First Prize for "Parade," 1998Josie Kerns '94
Hunt Contest First Place, 1997
Poetry Northwest's MacLeod-Grove Prize for series of poems, New Numbers, 1995Jennifer Kietzman '01
Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing, Colgate University, 2004Aric Knuth '02
U-M Ben Prize for Teaching, 2006Laura Kopchick '99
National Society of Arts and Letters Prize, First Place for "Cicadas"Valerie Laken '01
Pushcart Prize for "Before Long," 2004
Missouri Review Editors' Prize for "Family Planning," 2004Roseanna Lane '02
"Ghost Knife" selected for The Best American Short Stories, 2003Rattawut Lapcharoensap '03
A Granta Best Young American Novelist, 2007John Lee '03
Steinbeck Fellow, San Jose State University, 2005
Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 2004-5Michael Loncar '95
Bread Loaf Writers' Colony's Bakeless Prize for 66 Galaxie, 1999Daniel Lyons '92
Granta Magazine's "Best of Young American Novelists" Regional Winner for The Last Good Man, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, 1994
Story read at the Symphony Space Reading Series broadcast on NPR, 1993
Associated Writing Programs' Short Story Manuscripts Contest winner for The First Snow, 1993
Playboy College Fiction Contest, First Prize for "The Greyhound," 1992Raymond McDaniel '95
Murder (A Violet) selected for the National Poetry Series, 2005Karyna McGlynn '06
Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, 2008Katherine McGovern '91
Henfield/TransAtlantic, 1998
Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, 1996
Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in Fiction, 1994-96Paula McLain '96
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2003
University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Award, 2000
Academy of American Poets' Greenwall Fund GrantSarah Messer '91
Massachusetts Historical Society's Mellon Grant, Research Fellow, 1999
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1999
American Antiquarian Society Creative Writing Fellow, 1999Derek Mong '06
The Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize for Poetry, 2006Nami Mun '06
Pushcart Prize for "Shelter," 2007Ronald Nyren '98
Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in Fiction, 1998-2000Patrick O'Keeffe '00
Whiting Writers' Award, 2006
Story prize for The Hill Road, 2005Katherine Pancoast-Nagamura '88
Printed Matter's First Place Poetry Award for "Blue Skiff," 1993
Maron Reilly Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, 1991Diane Raptosh '86
Idaho Commission on the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, 1991
Rocky Mountain Women's Institute Fellowship, 1990John Reinhard '90
McKnight Artist Fellowship, Loft Award of Distinction in Poetry, 1998Kathryn Reiss '88
School Library Journal "Pick of the Crop" for "Dreadful Sorry", 1993
American Library Association "Best Book for Young Adults" for Time Windows, 1991
State of Maryland's "Blackeyed Susan Young Reader Medal" for Time Window, 1991
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant for Writers
Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee (twice) for Pale Phoenix and Paper Quake
South Carolina's "20 Best Books" List for 2000 for Paper QuakePaisley Rekdal '96
National Poetry Series finalist, 1997
Tennessee Williams Scholarship, 1997
Fulbright Fellowship, 1996-7Rebecca Reynolds '91
Norman Faber First Book Award for Daughter of the Hangnail, 1998William Rice '88
Templeton Foundation Grant, 1997
Bradley Fellow, Arts and Culture, Heritage Foundation, 1996
Earhart Grants, 1993, 1995Rachel Richardson '04
Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, 2004-6Jess Row '01
A Granta Best Young American Novelist, 2007
Whiting Fellowship, 2002
Ruth Schwartz '85
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1992
First Prize, Nimrod Hardman/Pablo Neruda Award, 1991
First Prize, New Letters Literary Award for Poetry, 1991Catherine Seto '97
Glimmer Train Fiction Award, Second Place for "The Other," 1997
Charles Johnson Award for "Bees," 1997Glori Simmons '97
Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in Fiction, 2003-5
Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award, Second Prize, 1999Brittani Sonnenberg '06
O. Henry Prize for "Taiping," 2008Kathryn Stein '95
Black Warrior Review Award for "Mill Witch," 1997Kate Umans '03
Columbia Poetry Prize for "Field's Chromatography," 2004
Susana (Suki) Wessling '89
Maryland Poetry Review's Fiction Contest, First Prize for "Gringa," 1992
Pushcart Prize nomination for "All Night Diner," 1992Suzanne Wise '94
Bellingham Review's 49th Parallel Poetry AwardEben Wood '02
Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize for "The Masturah Well," 2006