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  • Kalena Holeman

    Kalena Holeman Named Gates Cambridge Scholar

    English major Kalena Holeman was named as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She is just the second student at the University to receive this scholarship, which will support her graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.
  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Has Led an Extraordinary Literary Life

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Has Led an Extraordinary Literary Life

    This University of Houston professor has won prestigious book awards while advocating for the rights of domestic violence survivors.

  • UH Alum Jericho Brown wins MacArthur/Genius Grant

    UH Alum Jericho Brown wins MacArthur/Genius Grant

    Today, the MacArthur foundation announced the winners of the 2024 MacArthur Genius grants.  Among them was poet and UH Creative Writing Program alum Jericho Brown.  Jericho Brown has also recently received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book The Tradition.
  • Chitra Divakaruni wins American Book Award for her new novel Independence

    Chitra Divakaruni wins American Book Award for her new novel Independence

    The American Book Award honors books for “outstanding literary achievement” and is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit Before Columbus Foundation. 

  • Kevin Prufer wins the Rilke Prize for his new book of poems The Fears

    Kevin Prufer wins the Rilke Prize for his new book of poems The Fears

    The Rilke Prize honors outstanding work by a mid-career poet and comes with a $10,000 prize.   The Fears was selected from a pool of over 200 books submitted by publishers from across the country.

  • UH Poetry Faculty Member Kevin Prufer publishes new novel

    UH Poetry Faculty Member Kevin Prufer publishes new novel

    Proving crossover is possible, Kevin Prufer, normally a poetry writing professor in the CWP, has a new novel out.  Sleepaway appears this summer from Acre Books.

  • UH Creative Writing Professor Roberto Tejada has new book forthcoming

    UH Creative Writing Professor Roberto Tejada has new book forthcoming

    Poet Roberto Tejada’s new book, Carbonate of Copper, will be published early in 2025 by Fordham Univeresity Press.
  • UH Poetry alum Weijia Pan wins Max Ritvo Prize and Stegner Fellowship

    UH Poetry alum Weijia Pan wins Max Ritvo Prize and Stegner Fellowship

    Weijia is cleaning up this year.  His award-winning poetry collection, selected by Louise Glück, is called Motherlands and is out now from Milkweed Editions.

  • UH PhD student Adele Elise Williams’ manuscript selected for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series

    UH PhD student Adele Elise Williams’ manuscript selected for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series

    The poetry collection, called Wager, was selected by NAACP Image Award-winner Patricia Smith and is just out from the University of Arkansas Press.

  • UH PhD student Kelan Nee wins Vassar Miller Prize for poetry

    UH PhD student Kelan Nee wins Vassar Miller Prize for poetry

    His poetry collection, Felling, was selected by Gregory Fraser and is now available from the University of North Texas Press.

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Faculty and students in the Department of English collaborate in a rich mix of intellectual and creative pursuits. Together, we ask crucial questions about the role of the humanities and literature in a diverse, pluralistic public life. How do texts, writers, and readers make meaning? What is at stake in our study and creation of literary texts? Our award-winning faculty contribute to four programs within the department—literary studies, creative writing, rhetoric and composition, and linguistics—with many working across those boundaries. Students may pursue bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral level degrees.

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