2019-2020
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets
FIRST PRIZE
Lennart Nielsen
“Impressions of Sicily”
Honorable Mention
Grace Baik
“Headache”
William T. Faricy Award for Poetry
FIRST PRIZE
Nadalyn Bangura
“Interview Eight”
Honorable Mention
Sloane Scott
“Three Poems”
Mary Kinzie Prizes
Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
FIRST PRIZE
Katherine Packard
“Lost”
Honorable Mention
Ahlaam Moeldina
“On Taking Space”
Best Fiction Essay
FIRST PRIZE
Lydia Wuorinen
“A Texan Summer: Part One”
Honorable Mention
Tanisha Tekriwal
“Baby Spine”
Best Poem
Jon Wolf
“Parable of the Interior Plains”
Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper
Melissa Gauger
“Jane Austen’s Guidebook to Fear”
Helen G. Scott Prizes
Best Critical Essay on post-1830 Literature
Elynnor Sandefer
“Colonial Binaries and Joy Harjo’s The Woman Hanging From The Thirteenth Floor Window”
Best Critical Essay on the Short Story
Erika Barrios
“Maternal Mediation in María Cristina Mena’s The Birth of the God of War”
Best English First-Year Seminar Paper
Yetong Li
“Fantomina of the Opera”
Best Critical Essay on American Literature
Celine Fitzpatrick
“Down by the Water: Dry Baptism and the Subversion of Religious Symbolism in Go Tell It on the Mountain”
Best Critical Essay on Literary Criticism and Theory
Claire Pak
“Localization and the Imagined America in the Mother Series”
Best Critical Essay on pre-1830 Literature
Shealyn Abbott
“Cold Hearted: Humoral Theory and the Impacts of Grief in Hester Pulter’s Upon the Death of My Dear and Lovely Daughter”
Best Research Paper on Literature
Alice Yang
“Disease and Dickens: Mental Manias and Miasmas in Bleak House and Little Dorrit”
Award for Creative Writing in Fiction
FIRST PRIZE
Elizabeth Vogt
“Small Everyday Objects”
Honorable Mention
Katherine O’Donnell
“The Family Upon the Hill”
Award for Literary Media
FIRST PRIZE
Kandise LeBlanc
“A Mother’s Love”
Honorable Mention
Annabel Heacock
“Twinnies”
Edwin L. Shuman Awards
Outstanding Junior
Grace Gay
Creative Writing
Sam Nguyen
Literature
Outstanding Senior
Alice Yang
Creative Writing
Amanda Barraza-Murphy
Literature
Best Creative Nonfiction Essay
FIRST PRIZE
Mega Dafiaghor
“Goodbye to Nothing”
Honorable Mention
Carson Stewart
“For the Trees”
Best Fiction Essay
Celine Fitzpatrick
“Heart of a Dog”
Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Julia Morgenstern
“Foreign Diseases, Captive Women: Negative Cosmopolitanism in Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves and The Life of Charlotta du Pont”
Best Digital Media Essay
FIRST PRIZE
Susanna Kemp
“Finders, Keepers”
Honorable Mention
Jake Curtis
“A Plea For Voyeurs”
English Department Awards
Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing
FIRST PRIZE
Zeina Elhanbaly
“Not That Kind of Woman”
Honorable Mention
Sloane Scott
“One Theory of Time”
Best Honors Thesis in Literature
Erika Barrios
“Undoing the Terms of Accuracy: Exploring Language Technology in the Poetry of Urayoán Noel, Mónica de la Torre, and Rosa Alcalá”