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So many CUNY faculty members, students, and alumni have received special recognition for their writing. We’re working to archive these accomplishments here. Please see what we’ve recorded so far!
Boundaries, the most recent novel by Hunter College Distinguished Professor of English Elizabeth Nunez, has been nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the "Outstanding Literary Work: Fiction" category. >>
Tom Sleigh, a Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College, has been named a Fall 2011 Berlin Prize fellow. Since 1998, the honor has enabled "outstanding American scholars, writers, and artists" to "pursue independent studies and engage with German counterparts as well as the larger academic, cultural, and political life of Berlin." >>
"Hunter College Distinguished Lecturer Colum McCann has won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his latest novel, Let the Great World Spin. McCann’s novel was selected from 10 shortlisted titles by a panel of judges, who described his book as 'a genuinely 21st century novel that speaks to its time but is not enslaved by it.' The prize of over $140,000 is one of the world’s most lucrative literary prizes.">>
Distinguished Professor Tom Sleigh has been named the recipient of the inaugural John Updike Award, "given biennially to a writer in mid-career who has demonstrated consistent excellence." Also honored is Distinguished Lecturer Colum McCann, who has received an Arts and Letters Award in Literature honoring "exceptional accomplishment." Both Sleigh and McCann teach at Hunter College.>> <pdf>
"Meena Alexander, Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Italy at the University of Venice Ca' Foscori during March 2011, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.">>
"Poets & Writers has announced that Maria Mazziotti Gillan, John Grisham, and Elizabeth Nunez are the recipients of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.... 'Each of the winners of this year’s Writers for Writers Award is devoted to nurturing a specific community of writers. In so doing, they have each enlarged our national literature and enriched the lives of readers everywhere,' said Elliot Figman, executive director of Poets & Writers, Inc." >>
"Was the [Brooklyn College] M.F.A. program instrumental in helping [Marie-Helene] Bertino and [Elliott] Holt meet their goals as writers?">>
"Professor Kimiko Hahn, a Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College, [and] Professor Colum McCann, a Distinguished Lecturer in the Hunter College MFA Program...have won Guggenheim Fellowships for 2010.">>
"Marguerite Rivas and James Tolan, professors in the BMCC English department, were among 30 poets, nationwide, selected by the Two-Year College Association of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) to have their poems showcased online in audio and video format, in honor of National Poetry Month.">>
The National Library and Information System Authority (NALIS) of Trinidad and Tobago has chosen Prospero's Daughter, by CUNY Distinguished Professor at Hunter College Elizabeth Nunez, for the Fifth Annual One Book, One Community reading project.>>
"Acclaimed children's book author and Medgar Evers College Professor Tonya Hegamin is the winner of the 2010 Ezra Jack Keats Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, for her picture book Most Loved in All the World.">>
"The Australia Post Australian Legends Award is presented each year as part of Australia Day celebrations to honour individuals who have made a lifetime contribution to the development of our national identity and character....Since 1990 Carey has lived in New York, where he has taught creative writing at New York University, Princeton, Columbia, Barnard College and now Hunter College, where he is director of the MFA in creative writing.">>
"The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence...is designed to inspire and recognize African-American writers of excellence as they work to achieve the literary heights for which Ernest J. Gaines is known. Allen was selected for Holding Pattern, a recent story collection....[Allen] currently teaches creative writing at Queens College of City University of New York...." >>
CUNY Distinguished Professor Meena Alexander (Hunter College and the Graduate Center) "has received the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award for her contributions to American literature from the South Asian Literary Association (SALA), an organization allied with MLA." >>
"In accepting the award, the Irish-born Mr. McCann, now a teacher of creative writing at Hunter College, said, "As fiction writers and people who believe in the word, we have to enter the anonymous corners of human experience to make that little corner right." >>
"Teachers & Writers Collaborative has awarded the 2009 Bechtel Prize to Emily Raboteau for 'Jazz Poetry,' her essay about using the poetry of jazz music as an entry point and inspiration for her college students' reading and writing of poetry." >>
"Helen Phillips received her B.A. from Yale University in 2004 and her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College...where she is an adjunct lecturer and administrator in the creative writing program." >>
"Hunter English Professor and novelist Michael Thomas has been awarded the Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel, Man Gone Down. The prize is among the literary world's most lucrative, with a cash award of $140,000. Thomas, who is also a Hunter alumnus, beat out a pool of finalists that included Junot Diaz' Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." >>
"Esther Allen, an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Literature at Baruch College, has been awarded a 2009-2010 Fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library (NYPL)." >>
"Noted author Amy Hempel, a recipient of the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship who replaced Michael Cunningham as coordinator of the M.F.A. Program in Fiction at Brooklyn College this fall, has been awarded yet another literary honor." >>
"Ms. Sirisena lives in Jackson Heights, New York, and is an adjunct lecturer at City College of New York, where she received her M.F.A. in 2006....She intends to use her Writer's Award to live in Sri Lanka for a year to conduct essential research and finish both her novel and short story collection. >>
From the judges' citation: “With wild courage Kimiko Hahn’s poems voyage fearlessly into explorations of love, sexuality, motherhood, violence, and grief and the way gender inscribes us.” >>
Distinguished Professor of English Meena Alexander, an award-winning poet and novelist who teaches in the MFA program at Hunter, has been named a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow.>>
"Claremont Graduate University administers two major prizes for poetry each year, The Kingsley Tufts Award ($100,000) and The Kate Tufts Discovery Award ($10,000.) CGU’s Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award is one of the largest monetary prizes in the nation for a single work of a mid-career poet…" >>
"In his provocative, brave, and sometimes brutal first book of poems (Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic), Roger Sedarat directly addresses the possibility of political change in a nation that some in America consider part of “the axis of evil.…" >>
CUNY recognizes a select group among its talented faculty for especially outstanding scholarly and creative accomplishments as "Distinguished Professors." Currently, CUNY's Distinguished Professors include the following faculty writers:
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