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| Miscellaneous News (June 2, 2008) |
Leslie Hsu Oh was awarded a $5,000 Individual Artist's Grant from the Rasmuson Foundation, to work on her memoir. Leslie received her MFA in literary nonfiction at UAA in 2007. Elizabeth Bradfield, poet (Interpretive Works), and UAA alumna, is teaching at the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference, June 6 -10. Scott Banks, MFA candidate in literary nonfiction at UAA, published an essay ("Anchored in the Details") in Fish Alaska magazine. Professor Sherry Simpson is currently on book tour for The Accidental Explorer (Sasquatch Books). Another River Press has re-published her book, The Way Winter Comes, in paperback, with illustrations by Anchorage artist Stewart Allison. Arlitia Jones, UAA adjunct faculty member, will have her new play, Encyclopedia Apocolypta, read at the 2008 Last Frontier Theater Conference in Valdez, AK. Her play, Sway Me Moon, is also being produced on the Main Stage at the conference. Professor Jo-Ann Mapson's essay "Gandalf the Great Gray", will appear in Another Wilderness Encounter (University of Alaska Press), edited by Michael Englehard.
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| Student Awards |
On April 25, 2008, during the final student reading of the year, three graduating students were honored with special awards in the following categories: Special Innovation in thesis: The Inaugural Jason Wenger Memorial Writing Award: Honorable Mention: Final judge for the Jason Wenger Memorial Writing Award was fiction writer Ron Carlson, University of California Irvine. |