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Michael Meyer (2009) was awarded a month-long residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in the Fall of 2011.

André Aciman’s (1995) new essay collection, Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in October 2011.

Elizabeth Arnold (2002) won the Amy Lowell poetry traveling scholarship in 2010, and traveled all last year.

David Adjmi (2010) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting for 2011.

Jo Ann Beard’s (1997) novel, In Zanesville, was published in April, 2011 by Little, Brown & Company.

Sheila Callaghan (2007) is currently editing a pilot she wrote for USA Network. Her upcoming theatrical productions are featured on this website.

Bruce Duffy’s (1988) Disaster Was My God, A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud was published in 2011 by Doubleday.

Deborah Eisenberg (1987) is this year’s winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. She won the prize—which honors the “best published works of fiction by American citizens“—for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg.

Gretel Ehrlich (1987): PEN New England awarded its 2010 Henry David Thoreau Prize to Gretel Ehrlich “in recognition of her exceptional talents as a nature writer who so artfully expresses the grandeur and loneliness of natural settings.”

Jeffrey Eugenides’s (1993) new novel, The Marriage Plot, was published in October 2011 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Jonathan Franzen’s (1988) next book will be a collection of essays, including two previously unpublished works. Farther Away: Essays will be released in May 2012 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Paul Guest (2007) was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry in 2011.

Forrest Gander (1997) was awarded the Library of Congress Witter Bynner Fellowship in 2011.

Stephen Adly Guirgis’s (2006) play, The Motherfucker with the Hat, was nominated for 6 Tony Awards in 2011.

Terrance Hayes (1999) won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry.
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