Tony Ardizzone Retires
Chancellor’s Professor of English Tony Ardizzone has retired after twenty-five years of service to Indiana University. Tony came to our program in 1987 from Old Dominion University, and from the beginning he has been a passionate and outspoken advocate for the Creative Writing Program. Over the course of his distinguished career he has earned many accolades and awards including the Flannery O’Conner Award for Short Fiction and a Pushcart Prize, but none have been more important to his department than the frequent recognition he has received for outstanding teaching, most recently the 2012 Trustees Award for Outstanding Teaching, the most significant recognition that teaching receives on our campus. We will miss Tony, and we wish him well as he follows the trajectory of the protagonist from his most recent novel, The Whale Chaser, in uprooting himself abruptly from the Midwest to pursue happiness in the Pacific northwest.
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Ross Gay Receives Guggenheim
| Poet Ross Gay has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013-14. The Guggenheim is a prestigious fellowship awarded to “men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Congratulations to Ross; this accolade is first and foremost an individual honor, but it also reflects well on the Creative Writing Program and on the English Department as a whole. Ross is joined this year by Rob Fulk, who also received a Guggenheim; this is the second time in recent memory that both the literature and Creative Writing programs in English have been recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: two years ago, poet Maurice Manning and scholar George Hutchinson were each awarded fellowships. |
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Bledsoe Wins Teaching Award
| Each year the IU Board of Trustees recognizes faculty excellence in teaching through a program known as the Trustee Teaching Awards. Excellence in teaching is the primary factor for selection. This year Creative Writing Lecturer Bob Bledsoe has been selected for one of these prestigious awards. Congratulations, Bob! |
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Ross Gay receives an award for his outstanding community service
| Ross Gay receives an award for his outstanding community service from The Commission on Multicultural Understanding (COMU) at Indiana University. In particular he is being honored for his work with the Bloomington Community Orchard |
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Tony Ardizzone receives the Trustees Teaching Award
| Tony Ardizzone receives the Trustees Teaching Award from the English Department. The Trustees Teaching Award is focused especially on excellence in the classroom, and the record of classroom excellence from these colleagues is consistent and inspiring. Tony, Ed, and Rae are innovative, rigorous, charismatic, and dedicated teachers. It is a pleasure to recognize their excellence. I hope you'll join me in congratulating them. |
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MFA faculty Maurice Manning wins a Guggenheim 2011-12
| Congratulations to Maurice Manning for winning a Guggenheim for 2011-12. Here's a news release about the fellowship. Maurice will spend the next year working on his fifth book of poetry. |
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MFA faculty Ross Gay publishes "Bringing the Shovel Down"
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MFA Faculty Samrat Upadhyay publishes new novel
| Program director and fiction writer Samrat Upadhyay publishes Buddha'a Orphans. Click here to read a recent interview with him about the book. |
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MFA Faculty Alyce Miller's Water a finalist in the Paterson Prize
MFA Faculty Alyce Miller's collection of stories, WATER, is a finalist in the Paterson Prize. The book also won The
The Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction from Sarabande Books in 2007 |
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MFA Faculty, Samrat Upadhyay, winner of the 10th annual Asian American Literary Award
| Congratulations to Samrat Upadhyay for winning the Asian American Literary Award in Fiction, for his book The Royal Ghosts. |
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