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Scott Kaukonen (PhD, 2006) has been awarded a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts grant in prose. Other graduates of our program who have received NEA fellowships include Nicky Beer, Steve Gehrke, Rebecca Dunham, Averill Curdy, James Kimbrell, Jeffrey Thomson, Christie Hodgen and Anthony Varallo.

Bern Mulvey's (PhD, 2004) book, The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the 2007 winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Contest.

Emily Rosko's book, raw goods inventory, has been awarded the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers given by Shenandoah and Washington and Lee University. This book previously won the Iowa Poetry Prize.

Chad Parmenter’s poem, "A Tech's Ode to the Genome Computer," has been selected for inclusion in the 2007 Best American Poetry.

Our new program, Summer Seminars in Greece, will occur in June 2008. Please visit the Greece Seminar website for additional information.