English Students Recognized for Academic Excellence

Wayne State's Department of English held its annual Scholarship & Writing Awards Ceremony recognizing students for academic excellence. Here is a complete list of awards and recipients.

Creative writing awards

Judith Siegel Pearson Award

• First place: Alexandra Biedenbach, "Missed Calls"
• Second place: Bridget Gibbons, "A Celebratory Occasion"

Phillip Lawson Hatch, Jr. Memorial Award

• First place: Tiara Amani, "Hide, And I'll Find You"
• Second place: Megha Krishnan, "The Supplicant"
• Honorable mention: Joe Martinez, "Tennessee"
• Stephanie Jean, "Five Poems"

John Clare Award in Poetry

• First place: Nicole Friedlaender, "Tetralogy"
• Second place: Megha Krishnan, "A Culmination, in Parts"
• Honorable Mention: Ariel Mokdad, "Winter's Harvest" and Other Poems

Tompkins Awards: NonFiction

• First place: Dan Fenster, "Pest Control"
• Second place: Stefanie Norlin, "The Night Side of Life"
• Honorable mention: Cameron Martin, "Notes on Grandma Bayfield"
• Maya Younis, "Taking Flight"

Tompkins Awards: Fiction

• First place: Brody Cunningham, "Moonshine"
• Second place: Hannah Loesch, "Imperial Whim"
• Honorable mention: Daniel Jones, "How We Touch Sickness"
• Lesley Stanley, "Stripper Picnic"

Tompkins Award: Drama

• First place: Gregory Loselle, "Ghetto Romances"
• Second place: Mary Grahame Hunter, "Question Mark"
• Honorable mention: Heather Carr, "Kavya's Wedding"

Tompkins Award: Poetry

• First place: Megha Krishnan, "A Culmination, in Parts"
• Second place: Ariel Mokdad, "To Fall in Love You Must Let the Fireflies Go"
• Honorable mention: Tiara Amani, "Hide, And I'll Find You"
• Nicole Friedlaender, "Tetralogy"

Undergraduate awards

The Undergraduate Best Essay Award
Jan Blaschak, "Monsters, Men, Heroes, and Saints: The Organization of the Nowell Codex"

Distinguished Graduating Senior Award
Suzette Bristol

Service Achievement Award
Amal Rass

Graduate and undergraduate scholarships

Christopher T. Leland Endowed Scholarship in Creative Writing
Megha Krishnan

Loughead-Eldredge Endowed Scholarship in Creative Writing

• Undergraduates: Sara Jayyousi, Stephanie Jean, Joe Martinez
• Graduate students: Toni Bunton, Dan Jones, Lesley Stanley

Stephen H. Tudor Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing
Ariel Mokdad

Joseph J. & Mary E. Yelda Endowed Merit Scholarship for English

• Joseph Clawson
• Lujine Nasralla
• Manal Nizam
• Ki Lee O'Brien
• Aaron Proudfoot
• Nushrat Rahman
• Jonpaul Taylor

Gilbert R. & Patricia K. Davis Endowed Merit Scholarship

• Jan Blaschak
• Sean Rust

Dustin Rose Memorial Scholarship
Dania Khan

Marion K. Ringe Endowed Scholarship
Quintina Baldon

Thomas R. Jasina Endowed Graduate Scholarship in English
Catherine Donaldson

Terrance King Endowed Memorial Fellowship in English

• Tara Forbes
• Peter Marra

Albert Feigenson Scholarship

• Undergraduate: Blake Hart-Negrich
• Graduate: Inhye Kang

Professor Arnold Goldsmith Annual Scholarship

• Undergraduate: Connor Newton
• Graduate: Shawn Cooper and Sean Levenson

Dennis Turner Memorial Scholarship in Film Studies

• Kevin Ball
• Shelby Cadwell

Doretta Burke Sheill Endowed Memorial Scholarship

• Undergraduates: Rachel Hackett, Robert Hunter, Kayla Johnson, and Anna Petranovic
• Graduate: Shelby Cadwell, Corey Hamilton, David Nowak, Lesley Stanley, and Melanie Zynel

Pearl A. Warn Endowed Scholarship in English

• Undergraduate: Mark Sharrow
• Graduate: Nadia Mohammad

For more photos, visit the ceremony Facebook album: Scholarship & Writing Awards Ceremony 2016.