Ana Pugatch

Ana Pugatch

Ana Pugatch

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Creative Writing

Ana Pugatch is the author of Engrams: Seven Years in Asia (Redhawk Publications, 2023), a full-length poetry collection which won the Lena Shull Book Award.

Engrams is based off of her thesis, which she completed after receiving George Mason's Poetry Heritage Fellowship. Her work has received the Atlantis Award (The Poet's Billow), the McIntyre Light Verse Award (NC Poetry Society), and a Pushcart nomination (Willows Wept Review).

Ana's poetry has appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Thin Air Magazine, and Literary Shanghai, among other places. 

Education

B.A. in English, Skidmore College

Ed.M. in Language & Literacy, Harvard University

M.F.A. in Poetry, George Mason University