Selected Honors Won by Michener Fellows & Alums
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
2014 Philipp Meyer (MFA 2008), The Son
Dylan Thomas Prize
2017 Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012), The High Places
Man Booker Prize Longlist
2016 Virginia Reeves (MFA 2012), Work Like Any Other
UK Guardian First Book Prize
2014 Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012) shortlisted, The Night Guest
2012 Kevin Powers (MFA 2012) winner, The Yellow Birds
National Book Award Finalist
2016 Karan Mahajan (MFA 2015), The Association of Small Bombs
2012 Kevin Powers (MFA 2012), The Yellow Birds
Edgar Award, Best First Novel
2017 Flynn Berry (MFA 2014), Under the Harrow
PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction
2013 Kevin Powers (MFA 2012), The Yellow Birds
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
2016 James Hannaham (MFA 2006), Delicious Foods
PEN Emerging Writers Award in Fiction
2011 Smith Henderson (MFA 2009), for “Number Stations”
Voss Literary Prize (Australia)
2014 Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012), The Night Guest
Miles Franklin Literary Award (Australia) Shortlist
2014 Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012), The Night Guest
International DUBLIN Literary Award Longlist
2016 Smith Henderson (MFA 2009), Fourth of July Creek
Outstanding UT Alumnus
2011 Abhijat Joshi (MFA 2002)
Fulbright Awards
2014 John McManus (MFA 2004
2012 Paz Pardo (MFA exp 2018)
Guggenheim Fellowships
2017 Carson Kreitzer (MFA 2006), Emily Rapp Black (MFA 2004)
2015 Matthew Dickman (MFA 2005); Kevin Powers (MFA 2012)
2010 Philipp Meyer (MFA 2008)
Lannan Literary Fellowship
2010 Michael McGriff (MFA 2006)
United States Artists Fellowship
2011 Kirk Lynn (MFA 2004)
(Jeanne & Michael Klein Fellow in Theatre Arts)
James Laughlin Award, Academy of American Poets
2010 Michael Dickman (MFA 2005), Flies
Caine Prize for African Writing Shortlist
2015 F.T. (Fatima) Kola, for “A Party for the Colonel”
National Poetry Series
2016 Sam Sax (MFA 2016), Madness
2009 Carrie Fountain (MFA 2004), Burn Lake
2005 Steve Gehrke (MFA 2002), Michelangelo’s Seizure
Ruth Lilly Fellowship in Poetry
2010 Miriam Bird Greenberg (MFA 2008)
2009 Malachi Black (MFA 2010)
2008 Roger Reeves (MFA 2010)
2005 Michael McGriff (MFA 2006)
Yale Drama Prize
2009 Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (MFA 2009) Lidless
National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships/Grants
2014 Sam Sax (MFA exp 2016); Carolina Ebeid (MFA 2012)
2013 Roger Reeves (MFA 2010); Miriam Bird /Greenberg (MFA 2008); Jenny Browne (MFA 2007)
2011 Carson Kreitzer (MFA 2006)
2009 Michael McGriff (MFA 2006)
2003 Marlys West (MFA 1997)
2002 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996)
Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
2016 Kelly Luce (MFA 2015)
2010 Anna Maria Hong (MFA 2002)
Hodder Fellowship, Princeton University
2014 Gabriel Dean (MFA 2012) and Roger Reeves (MFA 2010)
2009 Michael Dickman (MFA 2005)
2002 Marlys West (MFA 1997)
Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
2017 Jacob Albert (MFA 2017) and Darri Farr (MFA 2017)
2016 Mark Hitz (MFA 2016)
2012 Nicole Cullen (MFA 2011)
2010 Miriam Bird Greenberg (MFA 2008)
2006 Mike McGriff (MFA 2006)
2004 Jeff Hoffman (MFA 2004)
2003 Bruce Snider (MFA 1996)
1994 Arthur Bradford (MFA 1998)
Stadler Fellowship, Stadler Center for Poetry Bucknell University
2012-2013 Carolina Ebeid (MFA 2012)
Philip Roth Residency in Creative Writing Bucknell University
Fall 2014 Corey Miller (MFA 2014)
2011-2012 Smith Henderson (MFA 2009)
2005-2006 Emily Rapp (MFA 2004)
Whiting Award in Fiction
2015 Roger Reeves (MFA 2010)
2000 John McManus (MFA 2004)
BOATT Poetry Prize
2016 Meg Freitag (MFA 2015), for Edith
Lark (PONY) Fellowship in Playwriting
2007 Carson Kreitzer (MFA 2006)
Recent Jerome Fellowships Playwrights Center of Minneapolis
2015-2016 (3rd award) Carson Kreitzer (MFA 2006)
2014-2015 Steve Moulds (MFA 2011)
2013-2014 Sarah Saltwick (MFA 2013)
Past recipients: Kevin Kautzman (MFA 2013), C. Denby Swanson (MFA 2002)
Lucille Lortel Awards for Off-Broadway Achievement
2016 George Brant, for Grounded, Outstanding Solo Show
University of Wisconsin Teaching Fellowships
2011 Nicole Cullen (MFA 2011) Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellowship
1996 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996) Halls Fellowship
Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, Los Angeles Times
2010 Philipp Meyer (MFA 2008) for American Rust
Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2017 Karan Mahajan (MFA 2015) for The Association of Small Bombs
1998 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996) for A Blessing on the Moon
Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival TYA Prize
2014 Reina Hardy (MFA 2014), Annie Jump the Library of Heaven
Wasserstein Prize, Educational Foundation of America
2011 Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (MFA 2009)
Honickman First Book Prize, American Poetry Review
2008 Matthew Dickman (MFA 2005), for All American Poem
Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, Pleiades Press
2011 Bruce Snider (MFA 1996), for Paradise, Indiana
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (Univ of Pittsburg Press)
2015 Miriam Bird Greenberg (MFA 2008), for In the Volcano’s Mouth
2007 Michael McGriff (MFA 2006), for Dismantling the Hills
2002 Shao Wei (MFA 2009), for Pulling a Dragon’s Teeth
Brittingham Prize in Poetry (Univ of Wisconsin Press)
2008 Philip Pardi (MFA 2003), for Meditations of Rising and Falling
Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (Univ of Wisconsin Press)
2003 Bruce Snider (MFA 1996), for The Year We Studied Women
Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship
2014 Sam Taylor (MFA 2002)
Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America
2015 Jenny Browne (MFA 2007)
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize
2013 Sam Taylor (MFA 2002), for Nude Descending an Empire
Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize
2017 Anna Maria Hong (MFA 2002), for The Glass Age
2011 Sarah E. Smith (MFA 2009), for I Live in a Hut
Four Way Books Intro Prize
2010 Patrick Ryan Frank (MFA 2011), for How the Losers Love What’s Lost
New Issues Poetry Prize
2010 Jeff Hoffman (MFA 2004), for Journal of American Foreign Policy
Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry (Univ of Utah Press)
2009 Jessica Garratt (MFA 2004), for Fire Pond
Humanitas Student Drama Prize
2010 Sarah Cornwell (MFA 2010) for her spec screenplay, Friday Night Lights, “Just a Game”
Jesse J. Jones Award for Best Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters
2003 Robert Ford (MFA 1997), The Student Conductor
2003 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996), The English Disease
Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters
2006 Dominic Smith (MFA 2003), The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
2003 Robert Ford (MFA 1997), The Student Conductor
1997 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996), A Blessing on the Moon
Lannan Residencies, Marfa, TX
Summer 2014 Roger Reeves (MFA 2010)
Winter 2011 Philipp Meyer (MFA 2008)
Fall 2011 Michael McGriff (MFA 2006)
Summer 2010 Michael Dickman (MFA 2005)
Winter 2010 Matthew Dickman (MFA 2005)
Spring 2009 Steve Gehrke (MFA 2002)
Dobie Paisano Fellowship
2017 Karan Mahajan (MFA 2015)
2014 Brian Hart (MFA 2008)
2010 Philipp Meyer (MFA 2008)
2006 Sam Taylor (MFA 2002)
2003 Dominic Smith (MFA 2003)
1998 Amy (Williams) Adams (MFA 1996)
Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting/Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
2003 Annie Reid (MFA 1999)
Chesterfield Fellowship in Screenwriting
2004 Charles Burmeister (MFA 1998)
2002 Jeff Hoffman (MFA 2004)
Provincetown Fine Arts Center Fellowship
2014 Alen Hamza (MFA 2014)
2012 Miriam Bird Greenbird (MFA 2008)
2010 Malachi Black (MFA 2010)
2007 Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012)
2006 Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012); Michael Dickman (MFA 2005); Patrick Ryan Frank (MFA 2011)
2005 Matthew Dickman (MFA 2005); Patrick Ryan Frank (MFA 2011); Peter Short (MFA 2005)
2004 Emily Rapp (MFA 2004)
Keene Prize for Literature, University of Texas College of Liberal Arts
2017 Leah Hampton (MFA exp 2019) winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Samantha Karas (MFA exp 2018); Lara Prescott (MFA exp 2018)
2016 Nouri Zarrugh (MFA exp 2018) winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Tanya Ponton (MFA exp 2018); Samantha Karas (MFA exp 2018)
2015 David Semonchik (MFA 2016) winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Darri Farr (MFA exp 2017); Meg Freitag (MFA 2015)
2014 Mark Hitz (MFA 2016) winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Alen Hamza (MFA 2014); Corey Miller (MFA 2014); Rachel Kondo (MFA 2016).
2013 Runners up: Corey Miller (MFA 2014); Karan Mahajan (MFA 2015).
2012 Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012) winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Carolina Ebeid (MFA 2012); Corey Miller (MFA 2014).
2011 Josh Booton (MFA 2011) winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Nicole Cullen (MFA 2011); Carolina Ebeid (MFA 2012); Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012)
2010 Runners up: Roger Reeves (MFA 2010), Fiona McFarlane (MFA 2012), Virginia Reeves (MFA 2012)
2009 Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (MFA 2009) winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Sarah Smith (MFA 2009), Malachi Black (MFA 2010), Sarah Cornwell (MFA 2010)
2008 George Brant (MFA 2008), winner $50,000 prize. Runners up: Smith Henderson (MFA 2009), Sarah Smith (MFA 2009) and Domenica Ruta (MFA 2008)
2007 Will Dunlap (MFA 2009) winner $90,000 prize
2006 Brian Woodson Hart (MFA 2008) winner $90,000 prize