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Bylenok Wins Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for 2021
Dr. Laura Bylenok, Assistant Professor of English and current coordinator of UMW’s Creative Writing program, has just been announced by the University of Nebraska Press as the winner of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for 2021. The book based on her manuscript Living Room will be published in the fall of 2022. For more […]
English & Linguistics Students Pursue Individual Studies and Internships in Fall 2021 Semester
This semester, English and Linguistics students continue to pursue high impact learning opportunities through independent studies and internships. Each semester and in summer, the Department of English and Linguistics offers juniors and seniors the opportunity to take individual studies in highly specialized courses that are designed by students in close collaboration with sponsoring faculty. Throughout the […]
’18 Alum Alexandria Riker Publishes Story
Congratulations to alumna Alexandria Riker ’18! Alexandria’s dystopian horror short story “Weighing In” was just published in The Yard: Crime Blog online magazine. Alexandria is a December 2018 magna cum laude graduate who majored in English: Creative Writing and studied under Dr. Warren Rochelle and participated in his study abroad program in 2018 at Bangor […]