Student and Alumni News

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GRADUATE PROGRAM ACCEPTANCES

Cristina Macaya Cisneros (C’23), Columbia Journalism School’s M.S. Program

Derek Engen (C’22), University of Washington-Seattle MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) Program

Hannah Greco (C’21), The New School MFA in Creative Writing Poetry Program

Glen Waters (C’21), Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA in Creative Writing

AWARDS AND HONORS

Krystal Anali Vazquez (C’16), Winner of the 2023 George Garrett Fiction Prize for her debut novel Lady Without Land / Señorita Sin Tierra.

Dunni Abisayo, (C’21) Shortlisted for the Penguin Merky Books New Writers’ Prize and Longlisted for the Discoveries Women’s Prize for Rapture.

Kristen Abram (J.D. Candidate, C’24), The Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize (1st Prize)

Elina Choi (C’26), The Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize (2nd Prize)

David Edwards (C’24), The Ora Mary Pelham Poetry Prize (1^st Prize), Quicksall Medal (1^st Prize), and Lynch Pendergast Medal (Honorable Mention)

Miles McInerney (C’25), Bernard M. Wagner Medal (2^nd Prize)

PUBLICATIONS

Krystal Anali Vazquez (C’16), Debut novel Lady Without Land / Señorita Sin Tierra, forthcoming from Texas Review Press on November 1, 2024.

SJ Han (C’23), Published in The Lumiere Review

RK Fauth (C’21), Published in Poetry Magazine

Dunni Abisayo, (C’21), Published in Waxwing Literary Journal

Aminatta Forna’s New Collection The Window Seat:
Notes from a Life in Motion Published