English Spotlight

The recipient of the Richard T. Dillon Award for 2017-2018 is Jesse Anderson . A non-traditional student returning to full time studies as an English Writing Major, he holds a 4.0 GPA. Anderson is a married father of two, and struggling to provide for his family (after losing his job...

English Associate Professor Wayne Miller’s 2016 poetry collection, titled Post- (Milkweed Editions, 2016), has won the Rilke Prize —a $10,000 national award given by the University of North Texas to the best poetry collection published by a "mid-career" poet in the previous calendar year.

Jeff P. Jones , Creative Writing BA alum, just published the novel, Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days (Texas Review Press), and is the winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize.