Alumni Awards
Awards aren't everything ... but they're a barometer of a program's (and its students') success. This page lists recent awards received by our MFA and BA alumni. Use the search boxes below to look up one of our alumni by name. If you click on an alum name below, you will see more book publications and awards by that alum. If you click on the award name, you will see a list of our other alumni who have won the same award.
Awards
| Alumni | Award/Org | Date/Book (if applicable) |
|---|---|---|
| Austin Smith (MFA-Poetry 2012) | Pushcart Prize Pushcart Press | 2021-09-15 (News) Fiction |
| Fina Mbabazi (MFA-Fiction) | The PEN America Dau Prize PEN America | 2021-03-01 (News) Fiction |
| Brian Sneeden (MFA-Poetry 2014) | NEA Literature Fellowship, Translation National Endowment for the Arts | 2021-02-05 Translation |
| Adam Giannelli (MFA-Poetry 2005) | NEA Literature Fellowship, Creative Writing National Endowment for the Arts | 2021-02-05 Poetry |
| Valencia Grice (MFA-Poetry 2018) | NEA Literature Fellowship, Creative Writing National Endowment for the Arts | 2021-02-05 Poetry |
| Jessica Walker (MFA-Fiction 2020) | Elizabeth George Foundation Grant Elizabeth George Foundation | 2021-01-07 Fiction |
| Suzie Eckl (MFA-Fiction) | Sydney Hall Blair Award UVA Creative Writing Program | 2020-05-15 |
| Aimee Seu (MFA-Poetry 2020) | Henfield Prize McCrindle Foundation and the University of Virginia | 2020-05-05 Fiction |
| Michael Chitwood (MFA-Poetry 1986) | Library of Virginia Literary Award Library of Virginia | 2019-10-19 (News) Search and Rescue |
| Reed Johnson (MFA-Fiction 2011) | Best American Mystery Stories Mariner Books | 2019-10-01 Fiction |
| Alexis Schaitkin (MFA-Fiction 2013) | Best American Short Stories Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2019-09-15 (News) Fiction |
| Kyle Dargan (BA-APPW 2002) | Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize Academy of American Poets | 2019-09-05 (News) Anagnorisis |
| Safiya Sinclair (MFA-Poetry 2014) | Elizabeth George Foundation Grant Elizabeth George Foundation | 2019-09-01 (News) |
| Sean Shearer (MFA-Poetry 2019) | Pushcart Prize Pushcart Press | 2019-09-01 Poetry |
| Kiki Petrosino (BA 2001) | Pushcart Prize Pushcart Press | 2019-09-01 Poetry |
| Matthew Denton-Edmundson (BA-APPW 2012) | Stegner Fellowship Stanford University | 2019-08-29 Fiction |
| Anna Beecher (MFA-Fiction 2020) | Sydney Hall Blair Award UVA Creative Writing Program | 2019-05-15 |
| Piers Gelly (MFA-Fiction 2019) | Henfield Prize McCrindle Foundation and the University of Virginia | 2019-05-04 (News) Fiction |
| Eleanor Stanford (MFA-Poetry 2005) | NEA Literature Fellowship, Creative Writing National Endowment for the Arts | 2019-02-01 (News) Poetry |
| Kiki Petrosino (BA 2001) | NEA Literature Fellowship, Creative Writing National Endowment for the Arts | 2019-02-01 (News) Poetry |
| Michael Parker (MFA-Fiction 1988) | O. Henry Award The O. Henry Prize Stories | 2018-11-01 Fiction |
| Gregory Jackson (MFA-Fiction 2013) | Bard Fiction Prize Bard College | 2018-10-25 (News) Fiction |
| Christa Romanosky (MFA-Poetry 2011) | James Merrill House Writer-in-Residence James Merrill House | 2018-10-01 (News) Poetry |
| Christa Romanosky (MFA-Poetry 2011) | Tulsa Artist Fellowship Tulsa Artist Fellowship | 2018-10-01 (News) Fiction |
| Safiya Sinclair (MFA-Poetry 2014) | Pushcart Prize Pushcart Press | 2018-09-01 Poetry |
| Chun Ye (MFA-Poetry 2006) | Pushcart Prize Pushcart Press | 2018-09-01 Fiction |
| Natasha Oladokun (BA-APPW 2014) | Wisconsin Institute Fellow Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing | 2018-09-01 Poetry |
| Emma Eisenberg (MFA-Fiction 2015) | Elizabeth George Foundation Grant Elizabeth George Foundation | 2018-09-01 (News) |
| James McLaughlin (MFA-Fiction 1997) | Discover Award Barnes & Noble | 2018-08-01 (News) Bearskin |
| Temple Cone (MFA-Poetry 1999) | City Poet Laureate | 2018-06-15 (News) Poetry |
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