Graduate Student Notes for February 2021

Sarah Nollenberger (MA, Literature) presented “‘To donate to the world a good Maud Martha’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Romantic Imagination” at the 31st Annual Online EGSA Mardi Gras Conference at LSU: Uncertain Futures: Exploring Ambiguities, Hopes and Anxieties, which took place February 10–12. 

Isaac Green (MFA) won the 2021 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize for his short story “Fifteens.” In addition, he has also been nominated for the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.