Student Publications and Awards
Betina González who is now pursuing a PhD at Pittsburgh, had her MFA thesis, Arte Menor, selected as the winner of the Premio Clarín de Novela 2006. Read what the jury said about Arte Menor.
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Yuri Herrera, who is now pursuing a PhD at Berkeley, had his MFA thesis, Trabajos del Reino, selected as the winner of the Concurso Nacional de Novela Jóven de México (National Mexican Prize for Young Novelist).
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Gabriela Aguirre born in Queretaro, Mexico. With her MFA thesis, La frontera: un cuerpo (Tierra Adentro), was selected as the winner of Premio Nacional de Poesía Jóven “Elias Nandino” 2003(National Prize for Young Poets).
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Sheryl Luna won the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize
for Pity the Drowned Horses,
published by the University of Notre Dame.
She was a finalist for the 2003 National Poetry Series book award.
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Juan Álvarez, who is now pursuing a PhD at Columbia, had his MFA thesis, Falsas Alarmas, selected as the winner of Concurso Nacional de Cuento Ciudad de Bogotá 2005. Read an interview with Juan.
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Javier Huerta, who is pursuing a PhD in English at Berkeley, had his MFA thesis selected as the winner of the UC Irvine Chicano-Latino Literary Award for 2005
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Camilo Castillo Rojas, Diego Javier Bustos Daeza, Juan Hincapié Montoya, won the Premio Nacional de Cuento Ciudad de Bogotá, categoría jóvenes 2003.
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Perdida, by Minerva Margarita Villarreal (1992); winner of the 1990 Premio Nacional de Poesia Alfonso Reyes
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Other Students and Alumni Publications
* Mudas las Garzas, by Selfa Chew (2007)
* Azogue en la Raiz, by Selfa Chew (2005)
* The Confessional, by J.L. Powers (2007)
* Santuarios Desierto Mar, by Juan Armando Rojas (2004)
* Fabulas y Antifabulas, by Cesar Silva-Santisteban (2004)
* Noche de Fundaciones, by Jose Javier Villarreal (1996)
*Dama Infiel al Sueno, by Minerva Margarita Villarreal (1991)
* Epigramisticos, by Minerva Margarita Villarreal (1995)