Dilruba Ahmed (poetry '09) has been named a winner of the 2010 15th annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for her collection of poetry, Dhaka Dust. Dilruba will receive a fellowship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2011 and her book will be published by Graywolf.  Her poetry has appeared in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, Pebble Lake Review, and Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry.

Tracy Winn (fiction '04) has been awarded the 2010 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fellowship Prize for her collection of ten Post WW II stories, Mrs. Somebody Somebody (SMU Press, 2009; Random House, 2010).  "Judges saw her work as highly humane and imagistic...the crystalline, well-crafted prose enables us to slow down and have greater respect for the complexities of human life" writes David M. Spear, the chairman of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation. The Foundation has been helping developing writers since 1988 in order to honor, preserve, and celebrate the memory and literary work of Sherwood Anderson, American realist of the first half of the twentieth century. The annual fellowship currently carries a prize of $15,000. Winn has also received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Trust, and the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, as well as fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony.

R. Dwayne Betts (Poetry '10, Holden fellow) has been awarded the 2010 Soros Justice Fellowship and 2010 NAACP Image Award for Literary Debut. The Soros Justice Fellowships fund outstanding individuals to implement innovative projects that advance the efforts of the Open Society Foundations to reform the U.S. criminal justice system. Betts, who is a juvenile justice activist, will write a book about the ways that crime and mass incarceration affect the families of both victims and incarcerated, social workers, teachers, and others who will never see the inside of a jail cell. A frequent lecturer and commentator, Betts was nominated for the 2008 Pushcart Award for Poetry, was a finalist for the 2007 Ruth Lily Fellowship in Poetry, and was a Cave Canem Fellow in 2006 and 2007.

Matthew Olzmann (Poetry '09) has been named a Kresge Arts Fellow for 2010.  Each of the 18 fellowships includes an unrestricted prize of $25,000 rewarding creative vision and commitment to excellence within a wide range of artistic disciplines. This is the second year of the program, and these fellowships are unprecedented awards devoted exclusively to Metropolitan Detroit artists in the tri-county area (Wayne, Oakland and Macomb) and represent the foundation’s unwavering support for artists living and working in its hometown. Detroit’s College for Creative Studies administers the fellowships, and the fellows are also offered customized professional development opportunities by ArtServe Michigan. Matthew's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Kenyon Review, New England Review, Salt Hill, Margie, Atlanta Review and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and Kundiman, a work-study scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Oboh Prize from Boxcar Poetry Review. Currently, he is a writer-in-residence for InsideOut Literary Arts Project and the poetry editor of The Collagist.

Dawn O'Dell Abeita (fiction '95) had flash fiction stories published: "Nest" & "Harvest" in Potomac Journal, and "Snippings" in Fiction Weekly.


Colleen Abel's (poetry '04) poem "Loving BF Skinner" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Southern Review.


Lucy Anderton (poetry '05) will resume the position of writer-in-residence for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) in Auvillar, France through August 2009. Some of her poems appeared in Barrow Street, DIAGRAM, Spoken Word Revolution Redux, and the first print issue of Tarpaulin Sky. A big first for her: publication of her essay in the Wally-linked Poem, Revised. She also has a poem in the forthcoming in From the Fishouse Anthology.


Marck L. Beggs Ph.D. (poetry '87) had his third collection of poems, Catastrophic Chords recently released by Salmon Poetry in Ireland.


Robin Black (fiction '05) sold her story collection Yesterday's News and a still untitled novel to Random House. She worked on several of the stories while at Warren Wilson, and the earliest ideas for the novel date from that time. The books have sold to publishers in six countries overseas and will be translated into four languages. She was awarded the 2009 fellowship to The Sirenland Conference in Positano, Italy. Her essay "Plot, Variations I, II and III, Chapters One Through Ten" (Colorado Review) was a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2008.


Phil Boiarski (poetry '80) has a poem in the May 2008 issue of the English Journal, the magazine of the National Council of Teachers of English.


Shannon Cain's (fiction '05) story "Cultivation," initially written at Warren Wilson, has been awarded a 2009 Pushcart Prize and was listed among the "100 Other Distinguished Stories" in Best American Short Stories 2008.


Martha Carlson-Bradley (poetry '89) was one of the poets featured in A Reading by Poets Living in New England at the 2009 Northeast MLA Convention in Boston. Two of her poems are forthcoming in Spoon River Poetry Review.


Elizabeth Eslami (fiction,'03) has work appearing or forthcoming in Thin Air, G.W. Review, Bat City Review, Weber: The Contemporary West, Coe Review, Beeswax Magazine, Neon, The Minnesota Review, and Natural Bridge. Her first novel, Bone Worship, was published by Pegasus Books in January. Visit her website here.


Mindy Friddle (fiction '05) was awarded a 2008-09 Fellowship in Prose from the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her second novel Secret Keepers will be published by St. Martin's Press in May. An excerpt is available on her website.


Michelle Gillett (poetry '84) and Nina Ryan have been teaching writing workshops together and independently and working with writers on book projects for a number of years. Nina's experience in publishing and as a literary agent and Michelle's as a writer and editor inspired them to make their business official.


Christine Hale (fiction '96) has a debut novel, Basil's Dream, coming from Livingston Press (U of West Alabama) April 2009. Visit her website here.


Ken Hart's (poetry '98) collection Uh Oh Time won the 2007 Anhinga Prize for Poetry, judged by Mark Jarman.


Elizabeth Haukaas's (poetry '06) first book Leap won the 2008 Walt McDonald First Book Award for poetry and will be published by Texas Tech University Press. Her work has appeared most recently in the New England Review, North American Review, New Millennium Writings, Tulane Review and William and Mary Review, and is forthcoming in the Crab Orchard Review.


Donna Henderson's (poetry '06) new collection of poems, The Eddy Fence, will be released in April by Airlie Press.


Janet Holmes (poetry '85) had Shearsman Books publish her fifth book The ms of my kin, an erasure of Emily Dickinson's 1861 and 1862 poems (from the start of the Civil War) into poems reflecting the start of the Iraq war.


Kath Jesme's (poetry '00) book The Plum-Stone Game was published this spring by Ahsahta Press. Two poems from the book appeared online on Poetry Daily on March 1, 2009.


Margaret Kaufman (poetry '93) continues to lead poetry workshops and a poetry class at the University of San Francisco's Fromm Institute, and is working on her manuscript (working title Tawny Avatar). A poem, "Brownie Troop, St. Louis, 1949" has been chosen for inclusion in the online American Life in Poetry.


Jynne Dilling Martin (poetry '06) won the 2009 Boston Review/92nd Street Y "Discovery" Prize, judged by Mark Strand, Mary Jo Bang and Terrance Hayes. She has new poems forthcoming in the Boston Review, TriQuarterly, and Southern Review.


Sally Molini (poetry '04) has poems forthcoming in New York Quarterly, Siren, 42opus, elimae, In Posse Review, Babel Fruit, roger, and South Carolina Review. Along with Karen Rigby and Fiona Sze-Lorrain, she is coeditor of Cerise Press, a new international online magazine based in the U.S. and France.


Lee Polevoi ('92) has published his first novel, The Moon in Deep Winter (Casagrande Press, 2008). In its review, ForeWord magazine called the story "irresistible ... the author keeps his narrative threads straight and sculpts his characters with exquisite precision, never allowing their intrinsic strangeness to become distractingly grotesque." Visit his website here.


Edward Porter's (fiction '07) short story "The Changing Station" was selected for the 2010 edition of Best New American Voices, coming to bookstores in October 2009. He's pursuing a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative writing at the University of Houston.


Erin Stalcup's (fiction '04) short story "Gravity" is forthcoming this summer in The Kenyon Review Online. Her short story "Brightest Corners" is forthcoming in The Sun.


Susan Sterling's (fiction '92) "Accidental Dog," an essay about her dog Maggie, appeared in the fall 2008 issue of Cream City Review. Another nonfiction piece, "Breaking Through," about two Maine singer-songwriters, appeared in the fall issue of Colby Magazine.


Jeneva Stone (poetry '07) : Her poem "Meditation on a Broken Child, var. 2" appeared in Literary Mama: A Literary Magazine for the Maternally Inclined in March 2009. Another poem, "Country of Origin," is forthcoming in Poet Lore's Spring/Summer 2009 issue.


Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet's (poetry '05) poetry collection Tulips Water, Ash was selected by Jean Valentine for the 2009 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and will be published in October 2009 by University Press of New England. She has poems online at failbetter and forthcoming in Blackbird, Third Coast and West Branch.


Anne Sullivan (poetry '92) has a book of poems Ecology II: Throat Song from The Everglades recently published by WordTech. Anne teaches in the Interdisciplinary Studies program at National-Louis University and is Poetry Editor of the English Journal. She lives on the west coast of Florida and is a Florida Master Naturalist.


Robert Thomas's (poetry '02) imaginative work appears in Guernica.


Addie Tsai (poetry '05) has poems forthcoming in Inch. One of her poems has appeared in Agenda (a feminist political journal from South Africa).


Rosalynde Vas Dias (poetry '06) had poems appear this fall in The Cincinnati Review and Crazyhorse.


Leslie Walker Williams (fiction '94) received the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel and the Morris Hackney Literary Award for her book, The Prudent Mariner (University of Tennessee Press, 2008.) She lives in Vancouver BC.

Ross White (poetry '08) had a poem "Two Swans" published in this winter's New England Review. It appeared on Poetry Daily on February 9, 2009.


Tracy Youngblom (poetry '03) has a chapbook of poems, Driving to Heaven, forthcoming from Parallel Press. She has had recent work in or forthcoming in Aethlon and Emprise Review. Besides teaching, she has started helping to edit the on-line journal Emprise Review.


Jim Zervanos (fiction '04) has his first novel LOVE Park coming out this spring. Visit his website here.