Honors won by current and former Michener Fellows

National Poetry Series
2005 Steve Gehrke (MFA 2002), Michelangelo's Seizure

Ruth Lilly Fellowship
2005 Michael McGriff (MFA 2006)

PEN/Faulkner Award
2003 Sabina Murray (MA 1993), The Caprices

PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship
2003 Lori Aurelia Williams (MA 1996)

Obie Special Citation Award
2003 Lisa D'Amour (MFA 1996), Nita and Zita

National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships
2003 Jill Alexander Essbaum (MA 1996)
2003 Marlys West (MFA 1997)
2002 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996)

Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
2006 Mike McGriff (MFA 2006)
2004 Jeff Hoffman (MFA 2004)
2003 Bruce Snider (MFA 1996)
1994 Arthur Bradford (MFA 1998)

Whiting Award in Fiction
2000 John McManus (MFA 2004)

Rosenthal Foundation Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters
1998 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996)

Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (Univ of Pittsburg Press)
2007 Michael McGriff, for Dismantling the Hills
2002 Shao Wei, for Pulling a Dragon's Teeth

Brittingham Prize in Poetry (Univ of Wisconsin Press)
2008 Philip Pardi, for Meditations of Rising and Falling

Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (Univ of Wisconsin Press)
2003 Bruce Snider, for The Year We Studied Women

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Award
2008 Miriam Bird Greenberg

Jesse J. Jones Award for Best Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters
2003 Robert Ford (MFA 1997), The Student Conductor
2003 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996), The English Disease

Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, Texas Institute of Letters
2006 Dominic Smith (MFA 2003), The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
2003 Robert Ford (MFA 1997), The Student Conductor
1997 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996), A Blessing on the Moon

Dobie Paisano Fellowship
2006 Sam Taylor (MFA 2002)
2003 Dominic Smith (MFA 2003)
1999 Katherine Hester (MA 1995)
1998 Amy (Williams) Adams (MFA 1996)

Chesterfield Fellowship in Screenwriting
2002 Jeff Hoffman (MFA 2004)
2004 Charles Burmeister (MFA 1998)

FC2 National Fiction Competition
1996 Alex Shakar (MA 1995), City in Love

Katherine Nason Bakeless Prize, Breadloaf
1996 Katherine Hester (MA 1995), Eggs for Young America (stories)
1999 Jill Alexander Essbaum (MA 1996), Heaven (poems)

Hodder Fellowship, Princeton University
2002 Marlys West (MFA 1997)

Bunting Fellowship, Radcliff College
1999 Sabina Murray (MA 1993)

Halls Fellowship, University of Wisconcin
1996 Joseph Skibell (MFA 1996)

Provincetown Fine Arts Center Fellowship
2004 Emily Rapp (2004)
2005 Matthew Dickman (2005)
2005 Peter Short (2005)

Keene Prize for Literature
2007 Will Dunlop
2006 Brian Hart