Thrilled to announce that two of our writing alums have been awarded multiple highly-revered awards. Vincent and Norma are smiling!

CONGRATULATIONS!

SARAH AZIZA (Nonfiction, 2023: Asian American Writers Workshop Margins Fellow) on her very prestigious United States Artists Fellowship!

Sarah Aziza (she/هي ) is a Palestinian American writer, translator, and artist with roots in ‘Ibdis and Deir al-Balah, Gaza. She is the author of The Hollow Half. Winner of the Palestine Book Awards, The Hollow Half is a genre-bending work of memoir, lyricism, and oral history exploring the intertwined legacies of diaspora, colonialism, and the American dream.

For more info: https://www.sarahaziza.com/

ALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICH (Nonfiction, 2011) on their very prestigious 2025 Whiting Prize and 2026 Creative Capital Award! (And all this after also beng awarded a United States Artists Fellowship in 2023.)

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec, and the Prix France Inter-JDD, an award for one book of any genre in the world. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, The Guardian, Paris Match, Lire, Telerama, and The Sydney Press Herald, it has been translated into eleven languages and is in development with HBO. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, Millay Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Maine Arts Commission, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, and the Black Mountain Institute, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award.

For more info: https://alex-marzano-lesnevich.com/