This spring, students in English literature and creative writing have exciting accomplishments
to share. Students from the department鈥檚 MA, PhD, and MFA programs鈥攁s well as recent
alumni鈥攈ave published books, articles, and poems in a variety of venues. They鈥檝e been
accepted to prestigious residencies and won competitive fellowships; they鈥檝e shared
their work at reading series across the country. In a number of contexts, students
are contributing in both creative and critical fields.
Serena Foster (MA 鈥�22) published in a winter 2023 volume of Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment.
PhD candidate Jo McIntosh will be a visiting researcher in the fall (2024) as part of the Women Writer鈥檚 Project in the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University.
Dan Hunt (MFA 鈥�22) won the prestigious Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship, which provides grants to short story writers, poets, unpublished novelists, emerging playwrights and unpublished creative non-fiction writers. This one-time funding enables writers to live and work for a period not to exceed a year
Kelan Nee, a second-year PhD student in Literature & Creative Writing, won the Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry for his first book , which will be published in April 2024. .
Poetry MFA Stacy Nigliazzo鈥檚 poem 鈥淏lue Hour鈥� was published in March in the
Katerina Ivanov Prado, a second-year PhD student in Literature & Creative Writing, was awarded a competitive fellowship for a summer 2024 residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Adele Elise Williams鈥� book was selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series and published in February 2024. Williams is a PhD student in Literature & Creative Writing.
Anthony Sutton, a second-year PhD student in Literature & Creative Writing, read at the in February 2024.