As our alumni share their news with us, we are pleased to share it with you!

Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Fellowship

• 2009: Brian Turner (Poetry ’96)

The Briar Cliff Review

• 2011: Leslie Barnard (Fiction ’09)
• 2010: Jude Nutter (Poetry ’98)

Dylan Thomas Award (University of Wales)

• 2010: Elyse Fenton (Poetry ’07)

Elizabeth George Foundation

• 2020: Josha Jay Nathan (Fiction ’14)
• 2020: Alyssa Ogi (Poetry ’15)
• 2019: Quinn Lewis (Poetry ’15)
• 2018: Claire Luchette (Fiction ’17)
• 2018: Elyse Fenton (Poetry ’07)
• 2014: Brenden Willey (Fiction ’10)
• 2013: Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)
• 2012: Zondie Zinke (Fiction ’11)
• 2010: Jude Nutter (Poetry ’98)
• 2010: Lysley Tenorio (Fiction ’98)

Fulbright Scholarship to Hungary

• 2010: Dennis “Arlo” Voorhees (Poetry ’09)

Fulbright Teaching Assistantship to Darkhan, Mongolia

• 2016: Morgan Thomas (Fiction ’16)

John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellows

• 2016: Brian Turner (Poetry ’96)
• 2013: Major Jackson (Poetry ’99)

Narrative Magazine

• 2013: Kirsten Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)

Philip Levine Prize in Poetry

• 2018: Tina Mozelle Braziel (Poetry ’13)
• 2010: Lory Bedikian (Poetry ’02)
• 2010 Judge: Brian Turner (Poetry ’96)
• 2009 Judge: Garrett Hongo
  (UO Creative Writing Program Professor)
• 2008 Judge: Dorianne Laux
  (former UO Creative Writing Program Professor)

Provincetown Fine Art Work Center

• 2009: Sara Eliza Johnson (Poetry ’09)

The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award

• 2013: Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)
• 2010: Sara Eliza Johnson (Poetry ’09)

Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford University)

• 2013: Brenden Willey (Fiction ’09)
• 2009: Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction ’09)
• 2009: Keetje Kuipers (Poetry ’06)
• 2005: Shimon Tanaka (Fiction ’00)
• 2000: Lysley Tenorio (Fiction ’98)

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship

• James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow
  • 2012: Sarah Hulse (Fiction ’12)
  • 2002: Miriam Gershow (Fiction ’02)
  • 1999: Lysley Tenorio (Fiction ’98)
• Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow
  • 2003: Matt Freidson (Fiction ’00)