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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Poet, Ross Gay, joins the M.F.A. Program at Indiana University
| Poet, Ross Gay, joins the M.F.A. Program at Indiana University. Ross Gay is the author of the collection Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006). His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, among other places. He teaches at Indiana University and in the low-residency program at New England College. He is a Cave Canem fellow and a demolition man. |
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Maurice Manning's third book of poetry, Bucolics, published by Harcourt in 2007.
| MAURICE MANNINGÌs poems have appeared in the Southern Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the New Yorker, and his first collection of poems was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award. He teaches English at Indiana University. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and Danville, Kentucky. |
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Samrat Upadhyay's latest story collection, THE ROYAL GHOSTS (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) selected as a finalist for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
Samrat Upadhyay's latest story collection, THE ROYAL GHOSTS (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) selected as a finalist for Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
With a prize money of $35,000, the O'Connor Award is the world's richest short story prize. The other contenders this year are Haruki Murakami (Japan), Philip ” Ceallaigh (Ireland), Rachel Sherman (USA), Peter Stamm (Switzerland), and Rose Tremain (England). The winner of the award will be announced in September during the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Festival in Cork. Last year's winner was Yiyun Li for her debut collection A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Random House).
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M.F.A Faculty is recognized for receiving one of five annual Indiana Humanities Awards issued by the Governorís Office and the Indiana Humanities Council, which recognizes lifetime achievement in the humanities.
The Department of English Would Like to recognize, Scott Sanders,for receiving one of five annual Indiana Humanities Awards issued by the Governorís Office and the Indiana Humanities Council, which recognizes lifetime achievement in the humanities.
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