This fall, students from the UH Department of English and the Creative Writing Program have seen their writing and scholarship recognized in myriad ways. Students have won prestigious national writing awards, published in widely circulated academic and literary journals, received scholarships to further research, and have had books accepted for publication. Both on campus and beyond, students are doing exciting work this semester.
 

Muhammad Nurul Islam, a second-year PhD in English literature, received the India Studies Tagore Scholarship from UH in Spring 2023.

Katerina Ivanov Prado, a second-year PhD student in Literature & Creative Writing, won the Narrative Winter Short Story Contest for her short story “Cuernos.”

Scott Repass, a third-year MFA student in fiction writing, published his article “‘Our Wits Are So Diversely Colored’: The Factiousness of the Citizens in Ralph Fiennes’s Coriolanus” in Literature/Film Quarterly.

Alfonso Reyes, who received a B.A. in English & Creative Writing in 2023, was recognized for his Outstanding Honors Thesis, A Partial Sarcology: Short Stories on Identity, mentored by Dr. Margot Backus and Dr. Roberto Tejada.

Adele Elise Williams, a fourth-year PhD student in Literature & Creative Writing, had her first book, Wager, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series. Williams also recently published work in DIAGRAM and Poetry Northwest.