Tyler Mills, Assistant Professor at New Mexico Highlands University and Editor-in-Chief of The Account as well as an alumna of the PhD Program for Writers at UIC, has won the 2019 Tupelo Press…
PhD candidate Sarah Buchmeier has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow in 2019 by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The largest and most prestigious such award, the Newcombe recognizes…
UIC English Professor and poet Christina Pugh has been awarded the 2019 Juniper Prize in Poetry for her collection Stardust Media. The Juniper Poetry Prize began in 1975 as one of only a…
UIC English Professor Luis Alberto Urrea has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year. The award committee considered over 3,000 applicants, and ultimately selected 168 winners. Urrea was one of…
UIC English faculty and poet/translator Daniel Borzutzky is on the shortlist of the 2019 Griffin International Poetry Prize, Canada’s most generous poetry and translation award, for his book Lake Michigan. Books are nominated…
Lennard Davis has already written extensively about his personal history with DNA testing to confirm a family secret in his book Go Ask Your Father: One Man’s Obsession with Finding His Origins Through…
The Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence (HOPE) Award is a student-led initiative run through the Office of Campus Housing. Every year, undergraduates nominate instructors who they feel “have made a lasting impact on the…
Ivelisse Rodriguez, alumna of the English Department’s graduate Program for Writers, has been nominated for a Pen/Faulkner Award for her book Love War Stories. Rodriguez has published fiction in All about Skin: Short…
