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![Parvulescu wins Barrington Moore Book Award](https://artsci.wustl.edu/sites/artsci.wustl.edu/files/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Ampersand/Creolizing%20the%20Modern_0.jpeg?itok=Aqr6Am_i)
![Carl Phillips wins the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Articles/Then%20the%20War.jpeg?itok=OQI7cT6d)
Carl Phillips wins the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
![Riker's novel ‘The Guest Lecture’ receives critical praise](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Guest%20Lecture.jpg?itok=7ufPEidQ)
Riker's novel ‘The Guest Lecture’ receives critical praise
![Katy Hargett-Hsu's “Internal Dissent” wins the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Crazy%20Horse-logo.png?itok=KvYbotEj)
Katy Hargett-Hsu's “Internal Dissent” wins the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize
![MFA Alum Robert Whitehead wins 2022 Anne Halley Prize from Massachusetts Review](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/RWhitehead.jpeg?itok=PHjaJu3B)
MFA Alum Robert Whitehead wins 2022 Anne Halley Prize from Massachusetts Review
![2022 NEXT Award Winners](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
2022 NEXT Award Winners
![Chris Eng's 2020 GLQ article "Apprehending the 'Angry Ethnic Fag'" awarded honorable mention for the Crompton-Noll Article Award!](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Screen%20Shot%202022-01-05%20at%2010.44.25%20AM.png?itok=T3ZUYX-f)
Chris Eng's 2020 GLQ article "Apprehending the 'Angry Ethnic Fag'" awarded honorable mention for the Crompton-Noll Article Award!
![Grace Lillard wins first annual English Department Graduate Student Teaching Award, Tom Sawyer Honorable Mention](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/award.jpeg?itok=rPY5tYx2)
Grace Lillard wins first annual English Department Graduate Student Teaching Award, Tom Sawyer Honorable Mention
![Carl Phillips Wins Jackson Poetry Prize, $75,000 Award](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/carl_0.jpeg?itok=kaVx8HpA)
Carl Phillips Wins Jackson Poetry Prize, $75,000 Award
![Two graduate students receive Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/IMG_6431_0.jpg?itok=Ag2gdRTj)
Two graduate students receive Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence
![Matt Weinstock wins St. Louis Literary Award "Inspired By Showcase" graduate prize](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/writing_0.jpg?itok=79qsHHkD)
Matt Weinstock wins St. Louis Literary Award "Inspired By Showcase" graduate prize
![Anna Preus and Deborah Thurman awarded the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence from the Office of Graduate Studies](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Screen%20Shot%202021-04-08%20at%2010.57.04%20AM.png?itok=GBa-I2sI)
Anna Preus and Deborah Thurman awarded the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence from the Office of Graduate Studies
![Zenique Gardner Perry wins 2020 "Illuminating Black Lives" fellowship at Writers' Colony of Dairy Hollow](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/zenique.png?itok=hpKlkRMd)
Zenique Gardner Perry wins 2020 "Illuminating Black Lives" fellowship at Writers' Colony of Dairy Hollow
![Penguin Poets to publish Tran’s debut](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/paultran.jpg?itok=UB2Q3eX_)
Penguin Poets to publish Tran’s debut
![Dutton and Riker win Golden Colophon award](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/IMG_6431.jpg?itok=baHhkOb1)
Dutton and Riker win Golden Colophon award
![Associate Professor Melanie Micir's book makes shortlist for Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/mels%20book.jpg?itok=UEuM1TkH)
Associate Professor Melanie Micir's book makes shortlist for Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize
![Writing minor Max Klapow wins Truman Scholarship, mentored by Senior Lecturer Victoria Thomas](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Writing minor Max Klapow wins Truman Scholarship, mentored by Senior Lecturer Victoria Thomas
![Visiting Writer-in-Residence Diane Seuss awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Visiting Writer-in-Residence Diane Seuss awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry
![Professor Melanie Micir awarded the 2019 Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Professor Melanie Micir awarded the 2019 Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship
![Professor Deborah Taffa's memoir wins SFWP Literary Award](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Professor Deborah Taffa's memoir wins SFWP Literary Award
![Aditi Machado wins the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Aditi Machado wins the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets
![MFA alum Jae Kim wins 2019 Poems in Translation Contest](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA alum Jae Kim wins 2019 Poems in Translation Contest
![MFA Alum Justin Phillip Reed wins the Lilly Rosenberg Fellowship](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA Alum Justin Phillip Reed wins the Lilly Rosenberg Fellowship
![MFA alum Judith Bishop wins 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA alum Judith Bishop wins 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize
![Professor Rafia Zafar's book reviewed in Wall Street Journal](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Professor Rafia Zafar's book reviewed in Wall Street Journal
![Carl Phillips wins the LA Times Book Prize](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/English_Phillips_C-1288759.jpg?itok=EFhYIt-G)
Carl Phillips wins the LA Times Book Prize
![MFA Student Analeah Rosen receives Fulbright research scholarship](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA Student Analeah Rosen receives Fulbright research scholarship
![Melanie Walsh Awarded 2018-2019 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Melanie Walsh Awarded 2018-2019 Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence
![English majors CeCe Heard and Taylor Bailey will be recognized at the James E. McLeod Honors and Awards Ceremony](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
English majors CeCe Heard and Taylor Bailey will be recognized at the James E. McLeod Honors and Awards Ceremony
![Senior Lecturer Martin Riker's novel reviewed in The New Yorker](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Senior Lecturer Martin Riker's novel reviewed in The New Yorker
![Carl Phillips is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Carl Phillips is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize
![MFA alum Katya Apekina is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA alum Katya Apekina is a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize
![Senior Lecturer Martin Riker reviewed new books this month for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Senior Lecturer Martin Riker reviewed new books this month for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times
![PhD student Samantha Pergadia publishes article](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
PhD student Samantha Pergadia publishes article
![PhD student Stephen Reaugh publishes article](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
PhD student Stephen Reaugh publishes article
![MFA Student Charles McCrory publishes two short stories](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA Student Charles McCrory publishes two short stories
![Carl Phillips is named the winner of the 2019 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Carl Phillips is named the winner of the 2019 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
![The Spectacle Launches its 6th Issue](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
The Spectacle Launches its 6th Issue
![Senior Fellow in Creative Non-Fiction Sylvia Sukop publishes two essays](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Senior Fellow in Creative Non-Fiction Sylvia Sukop publishes two essays
![Professor Bill Maxwell to edit and introduce Claude McKay’s novel “Romance in Marseille”](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Professor Bill Maxwell to edit and introduce Claude McKay’s novel “Romance in Marseille”
![MFA Alum Justin Phillip Reed wins National Book Award in Poetry](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA Alum Justin Phillip Reed wins National Book Award in Poetry
![Senior Lecturer Martin Riker's new novel reviewed in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Senior Lecturer Martin Riker's new novel reviewed in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal
![PhD student Esei Murakishi's essay "Thomas More’s Account of Natural Language and the Literariness of His Polemics" appears in the current issue of MLQ](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
PhD student Esei Murakishi's essay "Thomas More’s Account of Natural Language and the Literariness of His Polemics" appears in the current issue of MLQ
![MFA alum Aaron Coleman's essay published by the Poetry Society of America](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Aaron_Coleman-e1500157408871.jpg?itok=RUI2s5JU)
MFA alum Aaron Coleman's essay published by the Poetry Society of America
![Associate Professor Danielle Dutton and Senior Lecturer Martin Riker profiled in the Los Angeles Review of Books](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Associate Professor Danielle Dutton and Senior Lecturer Martin Riker profiled in the Los Angeles Review of Books
![PhD student Melanie Walsh's essay "Tweets of a Native Son: The Quotation and Recirculation of James Baldwin from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter" published in American Quarterly](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
PhD student Melanie Walsh's essay "Tweets of a Native Son: The Quotation and Recirculation of James Baldwin from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter" published in American Quarterly
![Alumni Update: Judith Bishop, MFA 2004](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Alumni Update: Judith Bishop, MFA 2004
![MFA Alum Katya Apekina's debut novel, "The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish," published by Two Dollar Radio](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA Alum Katya Apekina's debut novel, "The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish," published by Two Dollar Radio
![Clone of PhD student Michael Sanders's review of George Saunders's "Lincoln in the Bardo" published by Kenyon Review Online](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Faculty%20Books/LincolnBardo.jpg?itok=QlOg1pw4)
Clone of PhD student Michael Sanders's review of George Saunders's "Lincoln in the Bardo" published by Kenyon Review Online
![Senior Lecturer Martin Riker interviewed in The Millions](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Senior Lecturer Martin Riker interviewed in The Millions
![MFA Alum Justin Phillip Reed on longlist for National Book Award for Poetry](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA Alum Justin Phillip Reed on longlist for National Book Award for Poetry
![Washington University ranked as one of the top 10 schools for writers by College Magazine](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Washington University ranked as one of the top 10 schools for writers by College Magazine
![MFA student Paul Tran receives 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA student Paul Tran receives 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship
![MFA alums' essay published in "They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing"](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA alums' essay published in "They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing"
![Lawrence Ypil (MFA '12) chosen as a winner of The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Lawrence Ypil (MFA '12) chosen as a winner of The Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize
![Alumni Update: Mike Bezemek, MFA 2008](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Alumni Update: Mike Bezemek, MFA 2008
![MFA Alumni Update: Suzanne Cleary](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
MFA Alumni Update: Suzanne Cleary
![PhD student Samantha Pergadia's article published in Feminist Studies](https://english.wustl.edu/files/english/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-01%20at%208.27.31%20AM.png?itok=8EHJE5CG)
PhD student Samantha Pergadia's article published in Feminist Studies
![Senior Writer in Residence Marshall Klimasewiski’s piece, “William Gaddis and the Thoughts of Others,” appears this month in Conjunctions (alongside work by Professor Mary Jo Bang)](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Senior Writer in Residence Marshall Klimasewiski’s piece, “William Gaddis and the Thoughts of Others,” appears this month in Conjunctions (alongside work by Professor Mary Jo Bang)
![PhD Student Ben Meiners publishes two articles](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
PhD Student Ben Meiners publishes two articles
![First episodes of C21 STL podcast, by students in Assistant Professor Melanie Micir’s Contemporary Fiction course, available now](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
First episodes of C21 STL podcast, by students in Assistant Professor Melanie Micir’s Contemporary Fiction course, available now
![Seniors Julie Merrell and Harry Hall interviewed for the Kling Fellowship Program's "TL;DR" series](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Seniors Julie Merrell and Harry Hall interviewed for the Kling Fellowship Program's "TL;DR" series
![Assistant Professor Long Le-Khac’s article “Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post-Civil Rights Era” published in American Literature](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Assistant Professor Long Le-Khac’s article “Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post-Civil Rights Era” published in American Literature
![Associate Professor Danielle Dutton's story published in the Paris Review](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Associate Professor Danielle Dutton's story published in the Paris Review
![Professor Bill Maxwell's book "James Baldwin: The FBI File" is the subject of the cover essay of the March 7th edition of the London "Times Literary Supplement"/"TLS"](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Professor Bill Maxwell's book "James Baldwin: The FBI File" is the subject of the cover essay of the March 7th edition of the London "Times Literary Supplement"/"TLS"
![Alumni Update: Aaron Coleman, MFA 2015](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Alumni Update: Aaron Coleman, MFA 2015
![Cassie Donish (MFA 2016)'s chapbook "On the Mezzanine" chosen as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Cassie Donish (MFA 2016)'s chapbook "On the Mezzanine" chosen as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition
![Benjamin Cooper (PhD 2010)'s book "Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction" to be published in May](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Benjamin Cooper (PhD 2010)'s book "Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction" to be published in May
![Heidi Pennington's (PhD 2013) book "Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography" to be published in April](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Heidi Pennington's (PhD 2013) book "Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography" to be published in April
![Alumni update: Nathaniel Rosenthalis, MFA 2016](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Alumni update: Nathaniel Rosenthalis, MFA 2016
![Lecturer Martin Riker's review of Mike McCormack's "Solar Bones" published in the New York Times Book Review](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Lecturer Martin Riker's review of Mike McCormack's "Solar Bones" published in the New York Times Book Review
![Professor Vivian Pollak and PhD students Timothy DeCelle and Alexandra Swanson featured on Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Professor Vivian Pollak and PhD students Timothy DeCelle and Alexandra Swanson featured on Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive
![Lecturer Matthew Shipe's chapter published in "A Political Companion to Philip Roth"](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Lecturer Matthew Shipe's chapter published in "A Political Companion to Philip Roth"
![Lecturer Martin Riker's review of two books by Fleur Jaeggy published in the New York Times Book Review](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Lecturer Martin Riker's review of two books by Fleur Jaeggy published in the New York Times Book Review
![Associate Professor Abram Van Engen news and updates](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Associate Professor Abram Van Engen news and updates
![Assistant Professor Edward McPherson's recent publications and news](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Assistant Professor Edward McPherson's recent publications and news
![Alumni Update: Phillip Williams (MFA 2014)](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Alumni Update: Phillip Williams (MFA 2014)
![Professor Bill Maxwell Publishes "James Baldwin: The FBI File"](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)
Professor Bill Maxwell Publishes "James Baldwin: The FBI File"
![Junior Fellow Jae Kim's piece "At the Art Museum" published in The Collagist](/sites/all/themes/olympian/images/default-article.png)