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2020-2021

Edwin L. Shuman Award for Outstanding Junior and Senior

Jiakai Chang 
Award: Outstanding Junior in Creative Writing

Grace Gay 
Award: Outstanding Senior in Creative Writing

Nathan Omprasadham 
Award: Outstanding Junior in Literature

Lauren Katz 
Award: Outstanding Senior in Literature

Honors Thesis Awards

Grace Baik
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

Celine Fitzpatrick 
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Creative Writing

Sam Nguyen 
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Caroline Hsu 
AWARD: Best Honors Thesis in Literature

Edwin L. Shuman Awards

Nora Geffen 
Post-Verbum
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Keerti Gopal 
Egged
AWARD: for Fiction

Katie Hwang 
There is No Global Pandemic
AWARD: for Digital Media

Tanisha Tekriwal  
It Was Falling” 
AWARD: for Digital Media 

Helen G. Scott Prizes

Caroline Hsu
Confronting the Age of Mass Surveillance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier
AWARD: for a Critical Essay

Elizabeth Vaynblat 
Apologizing for Others: Building Sympathy and Culpability in Psycho
AWARD: for an English First-Year Seminar Paper

Zoë Huettl 
Medical History
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Fiction

Sofia Bening 
Forever(6 letters)
AWARD: for Creative Writing in Nonfiction

Kiersa Berg 
Best, Sincerely, With Love
AWARD: for Digital Media

Grace Gay 
Innocent Blood [excerpts]
AWARD: in Poetry

Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize from The Academy of American Poets

Lennart Nielsen
Penumbral Floaters

Mary Kinzie Prizes

Laurisa Sastoque
Contradicting Home; Anecdotes and Aphorisms
AWARD: for Creative Nonfiction Essay

Grace Gay 
San Mateo Campground
AWARD: for Fiction

David Lee 
The Escapist - Excerpts
AWARD: for Poetry

Robert Mayo Memorial Prize for Best English 300 Paper

Allison Macdonald 
The Boy Who Cried Woolf: Humor, Satire, and Feminism in Orland

William T. Faricy Award for Poetry

Christian Thorsberg 
Proem, Strip Mall, Romancing Ghosts