Recent Awards and Publications by Graduates

• Robert Vivian, creative nonfiction Cold Snap as Yearning, University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.
• AAUW Emerging Scholar Award: Gwendolyn Foster, author of Women Film Directors: an International Bio-Critical Dictionary, Greenwood Press, 1995; Troping the Body: Gender, Etiquette, and Performance, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000; Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora, Southern Illinois University Press, 1997, Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema, SUNY 1999.
• Lisa Knopp, essay collection Field of Vision, University of Iowa Press, 1996.
• Deborah G. Plant, Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston. University of Illinois Press, 1995.
• Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction: Lee Martin, The Least You Need to Know, Sarabande Press, 1996
• Nancy Welch, Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction, Boynton/Cook, 1997.
• Excellence in Scholarship and Research Award, University of Windsor: Dale Jacobs, 2002 (PhD 1997).
• Lean’tin Bracks, Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora, Garland, 1998.
• Mark Kamrath, ed. (with Kari Ronning and Frederick Link), Obscure Destinies (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition Series), University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
• Lisa Knopp, with Albert Stone, Flight Dreams: A Life in the Midwestern Landscape, University of Iowa, 1998.
• Linda Lewis, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Spiritual Progress, University of Missouri, 1998.
• Poetry of the Year Award, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers: Laura Tohe, No Parole Today, University of New Mexico, 1999.
• Carol Miles Peterson, Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real, University of Nebraska Press. Ed., The Collected Short Works of Bess Streeter Aldrich, University of Nebraska, 1999.
• Barnes & Noble Discovery Book: Paul Eggers, novel Saviors, Harcourt Brace, 1999.
• Outstanding designation by Choice: John Anders, Willa Cather’s Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition, University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
• Vassar Miller Poetry Prize: Constance Merritt, A Protocol for Touch, University of North Texas Press, 2000.
• John Simmons/ Iowa Short Fiction Prize: John McNally, Troublemakers, University of Iowa Press, 2000.
• Best New American Voices 2000 (selected Tobias Wolff): Ladette Randolph, “The “Girls.”
• Stephanie Witham-Donsig, co-editor with Carole Levin, Extraordinary Women of the Medieval and Renaissance World, Greenwood Press 2000.
• Sunita Jain, novel A Girl of Her Age, Atma Ram & Sons (Delhi), 2000.
• Sunita Jain, Sensum: Collected Poems 1965-2000, myword! Press (Calcutta), 2000.
• Nebraska Book Award in Fiction: John McNally, Troublemakers, University of Iowa Press, 2000.
• 2000 Pushcart Prize: Nancy McCabe, essay “The Tunnel,” originally published in the Prairie Schooner.
• National Poetry Series Winner: Susan Atefat Peckham, That Kind of Sleep, Coffee House Press, 2001.
• Best New American Voices 2001 (selected Charles Baxter): Erin Flanagan,“Intervention.”
• 2001 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry: Tim Skeen, Kentucky Swami, BkMk Press.
• 2001-2002 Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship from George Washington University: John McNally. This fellowship is given to one writer per year. Past recipients include Marilyn Hacker, Amiri Baraka, Gloria Naylor, Lucille Clifton, and Julia Alvarez.
• Kristin Mapel-Bloomberg, Tracing Arachne’s Web: Myth and Feminist Fiction, University of South Florida 2002.
• John McNally, ed. The Student Body: Short Stories About College Students and Professors, Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
• Virginia Wright-Peterson, introduction. Poems by William Carlos Williams, University of Illinois Press, 2002.