Ucross Alumni News: Spring/Summer 2023

Gabriela Jauregui (22) was awarded the three-year Borchard Center for Literary Arts Fellowship.

and Culture reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting with the Montana Free

Country of Under was the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction runner-up and was shortlisted for Dzanc Books’ Prize for Fiction and Black Lawrence Press’s Big Moose Prize. The first chapter of Brooke’s memoir-in-progress was selected by Melissa Febos as the winner of the 2023 Lit/ South Nonfiction Award and appeared in Litmosphere . With her partner Niteesh Elias, Brooke recently founded Freedom Tunnel Press to publish books that straddle borders. Manil Suri’s (03,06,09) book The Big Bang of Numbers: How to Build the Universe Using Only Math was a finalist for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson

Elizabeth Kadetsky’s (98,03) memoir The Memory Eaters was the winner of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She

Press on a project by

violist Megan Karls and her commissioned work highlighting

Gabriela Jauregui

Montana Mission Churches and the complex history they carry. Bora Lee Reed (10) was selected as a 2023 LitUp fellow for her

is currently serving as the Fulbright Nehru flex Scholar for India.

Margaret Malone (17) was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in Fiction from Literary Arts for her current novel The Unknown Woman. Ryan D. Matthews (18) is the winner of the de Groot Foundation’s 2023 Courage to Write Award.

novel The Letter Writers.

David Romtvedt’s (84,07) No Way: An American Tao Te Ching was a finalist for the High Plains Book Award. Brooke Shaffner’s (10) novel Country of Under won

Literary Science Writing Award.

the 1729 Book Prize and is forthcoming in April 2024 from Mason Jar Press.

Anna Paige ( 20) was awarded first place for Arts

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SPRING/SUMMER 2023

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