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  UH Poetry PhD Student Bo Hee Moon wins the Jake Adam York Prize

  Judge Matthew Olzmann selected Bo’s book, Birthstones in the Province of Mercy, for the 2024 prize out of 922 manuscripts. It will be published by Milkweed Editions in January 2026.

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  UH Poetry PhD student Christopher Hewitt wins New Criterion Poetry Prize

  The prize recognizes book-length collections of poetry that pay close attention to form. Christopher’s collection The Summer After is his first book and was published in February of this year.

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  Dr. Wingard featured in Spectrum News article

  Dr. Jen Wingard was recently interviewed for a Spectrum News article discussing the tone of our current federal administration's social media activity regarding immigrant deportations.

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  Kalena Holeman Named Gates Cambridge Scholar

  English major Kalena Holeman was named as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She is just the second student at the University to receive this scholarship, which will support her graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
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  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Has Led an Extraordinary Literary Life

  This University of Houston professor has won prestigious book awards while advocating for the rights of domestic violence survivors.

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  UH Alum Jericho Brown wins MacArthur/Genius Grant

  Today, the MacArthur foundation announced the winners of the 2024 MacArthur Genius grants.  Among them was poet and UH Creative Writing Program alum Jericho Brown.  Jericho Brown has also recently received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book The Tradition.
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  Chitra Divakaruni wins American Book Award for her new novel Independence

  The American Book Award honors books for “outstanding literary achievement” and is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit Before Columbus Foundation. 

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  Kevin Prufer wins the Rilke Prize for his new book of poems The Fears

  The Rilke Prize honors outstanding work by a mid-career poet and comes with a $10,000 prize.   The Fears was selected from a pool of over 200 books submitted by publishers from across the country.

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  UH Poetry Faculty Member Kevin Prufer publishes new novel

  Proving crossover is possible, Kevin Prufer, normally a poetry writing professor in the CWP, has a new novel out.  Sleepaway appears this summer from Acre Books.

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  UH Creative Writing Professor Roberto Tejada has new book forthcoming

  Poet Roberto Tejada’s new book, Carbonate of Copper, will be published early in 2025 by Fordham Univeresity Press.
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  UH Poetry alum Weijia Pan wins Max Ritvo Prize and Stegner Fellowship

  Weijia is cleaning up this year.  His award-winning poetry collection, selected by Louise Glück, is called Motherlands and is out now from Milkweed Editions.

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  UH PhD student Adele Elise Williams’ manuscript selected for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series

  The poetry collection, called Wager, was selected by NAACP Image Award-winner Patricia Smith and is just out from the University of Arkansas Press.

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  UH PhD student Kelan Nee wins Vassar Miller Prize for poetry

  His poetry collection, Felling, was selected by Gregory Fraser and is now available from the University of North Texas Press.

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