2025 AwardsEnglish

Outstanding Graduate Student Awards

• Jessika Bouvier
• Emma Bussard
• Grace Calamita
• Bri Chapman
• Shellie Kalinsky
• Susan Lane
• Jillian Shank
• Nate Walker

Robert Karlson Award

The Robert Karlson prize provides a monetary award to the year's outstanding graduate student in the English Department's MA programs.

• Emma Bussard

Sven Eric Molin Award

The Sven Eric Molin Prize provides an award in funds toward the education of a continuing graduate student in English of exceptional merit. 

• Rebecca Kobayashi

MFA Thesis Fellowship in Poetry

• Maya Gudapati

MFA Thesis Fellowship in Fiction

• Scott Hovdey

MFA Thesis Fellowship in Nonfiction

• Madeline Merritt

Mary Roberts Rinehart Fiction Award

• Martheaus Perkins

Mary Roberts Rinehart Nonfiction Award

• Robert Bianco

Mark Craver Poetry Award

• Katey Funderburgh

Virginia Downs EcoPoetry Award

The Virginia Downs Poetry Award is given for a single poem of 60 lines or less.

• Nick Ritter

Margaret R. Yocom Student Paper Prize -- Graduate

• Amanda Young

Charlie Jones Award

• Lubna Alnumair

Alan Cheuse International Writers Center Fellow

• Katey Funderburgh
• Klara Kalu
• Angelina Morin
• Anqi Tang

CHSS Outstanding Graduate Student in English

• Angie DiNardo

GMU Rinehart Nonfiction Award

• Martheaus Perkins

GMU Rinehart Fiction Award

• Eunice Tan

GMU Rinehart Poetry Award

• Scott Hovdey