Alumni News Highlights
• Ocean Vuong was named a 2021 United States Artists Fellow
• Raven Leilani won the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the Center for Fiction 2020 First Novel Prize for her debut novel Luster
• Senior faculty member and alum Darin Strauss was longlisted for the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize
• Alum and recent visiting faculty member Maaza Mengiste's novel The Shadow King was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
• Ada Limón was awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship
• Morgan Parker was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for her latest collection Magical Negro
• Visiting faculty member and alum Robin Coste Lewis was named a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow
• Julie Buntin's debut novel MARLENA was named a Michigan Notable Book 2018 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize
• Isabella Hammad was profiled in The New York Times for her debut novel, The Parisian
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