Departmental Graduate Awards

Literature Department

Departmental Graduate Awards from Literature Department
	Joe Alicea CITL Pedagogy Fellow
	Skyler Marshall 2023 Jim and Anne Bay Fellowship 2024 Porter Public Fellowship
	Thaïs Miller 2023-2024 Josephine de Karman Fellowship Thaïs Miller is the author of the novel Our Machinery (2008) and the short story collection The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (2009). She is currently a PhD Candidate in Literature, pursuing a Creative/Critical Writing Concentration, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She looks forward to serving as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of Central Arkansas starting in the fall of 2024. She received her MA in Creative Writing for Social Activism from New York University in 2011, and her BA magna cum laude with Honors in Literature and a minor in Music Performance from American University in 2009. She has taught literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley Extension, and the Gotham Writers Workshop among other institutions. She has volunteered as an editorial reader for the Center for Fiction, the nonprofit literary magazine One Story, and Francis Ford Coppola’s literary magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story.
	Nathan Osorio UCSC 2023-2024 President's Fellowship 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Nathan Xavier Osorio’s debut poetry collection, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, selected by Oliver De la Paz for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry, translations, and essays have also appeared in BOMB, The Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. His writing and teaching has been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry Foundation. He is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
	Nghiem Tran We're Safe When We're Alone included in NPR's Best Books of 2023 Nghiem Tran was born in Vietnam and raised in Kansas. A Kundiman fellow, he received his BA from Vassar College and his MFA from Syracuse University. His writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Offing, The Indiana Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novel, We're Safe When We're Alone (2023), and the poetry collection, Our Hours Are Married To Shadow (2026), both published by Coffee House Press.
	Hannah Newburn Dissertation Quarter Fellowship from UCSC Humanities Division