Alumni Awards
Awards aren't everything ... but they're a barometer of a program's (and its students') success. This page lists recent awards received by our MFA and BA alumni. Use the search boxes below to look up one of our alumni by name. If you click on an alum name below, you will see more book publications and awards by that alum. If you click on the award name, you will see a list of our other alumni who have won the same award.
Awards
| Alumni | Award/Org | Date/Book (if applicable) |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Denton-Edmundson (BA-Poetry Writing 2012) | Best American Essays Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2025-10-03 Nonfiction |
| Hajjar Baban (MFA-Poetry 2023) | National Poetry Series Winner National Poetry Series | 2025-09-07 (News) Low Flying Planes |
| Opeyemi Rasak-Oyadiran (MFA-Fiction) | Sydney Hall Blair Award for Excellence in Teaching UVA Creative Writing Program | 2025-05-07 |
| Aryeh Lieber (MFA-Fiction 2025) | Henfield Prize McCrindle Foundation and the University of Virginia | 2025-05-06 Fiction |
| Hajjar Baban (MFA-Poetry 2023) | Pushcart Prize Pushcart Press | 2024-09-15 Poetry |
| MaKshya Tolbert (MFA-Poetry 2024) | National Poetry Series Winner National Poetry Series | 2024-09-06 (News) Shade Is a Place |
| Danny Eisenberg (MFA-Fiction) | Henfield Prize McCrindle Foundation and the University of Virginia | 2024-05-09 Fiction |
| Bella Lewis (MFA-Fiction 2025) | Sydney Hall Blair Award for Excellence in Teaching UVA Creative Writing Program | 2024-04-30 (News) Fiction |
| Katherine Cart (MFA-Fiction 2024) | Fulbright Fellowship U.S. Department of State | 2024-04-15 Fiction |
| Safiya Sinclair (MFA-Poetry 2014) | Guggenheim Fellowship John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | 2024-04-11 (News) Poetry |
| Natasha Oladokun (BA-Poetry Writing 2014) | NEA Literature Fellowship, Creative Writing National Endowment for the Arts | 2023-09-15 Poetry |
| Jennifer Chang (MFA-Poetry 2002) | Pushcart Prize Pushcart Press | 2023-09-15 Poetry |
| MaKshya Tolbert (MFA-Poetry 2024) | Hurston/Wright College Award The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation | 2023-07-11 (News) Poetry |
| Sophia Zaklikowski (MFA-Fiction 2024) | Sydney Hall Blair Award for Excellence in Teaching UVA Creative Writing Program | 2023-05-15 |
| Talia Isaacson (MFA-Poetry 2024) | Henfield Prize McCrindle Foundation and the University of Virginia | 2023-05-11 Fiction |
| Katherine James (MFA-Poetry 2023) | Fulbright Fellowship U.S. Department of State | 2023-03-19 Poetry |
| Gahl Pratt Pardes (MFA-Fiction 2022) | Stegner Fellowship Stanford University | 2023-03-15 Fiction |
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