• Actors Theater of Louisville Heideman Award
  • Cary DeBerry, MFA 2004 (2003): Finalist, "The Ice Chest"

• Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards
  • Lois Roma-Deeley, MFA 1988 (2005): 3rd place, "A Young Señorita with a Rose in Her Teeth"

• American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
  • Rigoberto Gonzalez, MFA 1997 (2007): Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (U of Wisconsin P)

• American Scandinavian Foundation Creative Writing Fellowship
  • Christopher Burawa, BA 1987; MA 1994; MFA 2004 (2008)

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies
  • Erin McCarthy, BA 2005 (2005-2006)

• Arizona Commission on the Arts Artist Project Grant
  • Patricia Murphy, MFA 1996 (2008)
  • Chris Pexa, MFA 2003 (2008)
  • Sean Nevin, MFA 2002 (2007)

• Arizona Humanities Council (AHC) Distinguished Public Scholar Award
  • Dan Shilling, PhD 1987 (2004): AHC renamed award in his honor, The Dan Shilling Public Scholar Award

• Arizona Governor's Arts Awards
  • Lois Roma-Deeley, MFA 1988 (2003): Nominee

• Classic Images "Best Books of the Year"
  • Wendy Marshall, MFA 2003 (2005): William Beaudine: From Silents to Television (Scarecrow P 2004)

• Colorado Book Award
  • Teague Bohlen, MFA 1997 (2007): The Pull of the Earth (Ghost Road, 2006)

• Crab Orchard Award Series First Book Prize
  • Sean Nevin, MFA 2002 (2007): Oblivio Gate (Southern Illinois UP 2008)

• Eastern Frontier Education Foundation Fellowship
  • Sean Nevin, MFA 2002 (2007)

• Edward Albee New Frontier Playwriting Lab, Valdez, AK
  • Luke Krueger, MFA 2003 (2004): Finalist, Exit, Cute Ed
  • Luke Krueger, MFA 2003 (2004): Semi-Finalist, Burning Times

• Emily Dickinson Award in Poetry, Universities West Press
  • Lois Roma-Deeley, MFA 1988 (2003): 3rd place, "Bougainvillaea and TV"

• ForeWord Magazine Literary Fiction Book of the Year
  • Rigoberto González, MFA 1997 (2003): Crossing Vines (U of Oklahoma P)

• Frank O'Hara Chapbook Award
  • Charles Jensen, MFA 2004 (2006): Living Things
  • Charles Jensen, MFA 2004 (2005): 2nd & 3rd places

• Fulbright Award
  • Kathleen Godfrey, PhD 1998 (2008-2009): Roving Scholar in American Studies, Norway
  • Ileana Orlich, PhD 1987 (2006-2007)
  • Erin Torkelson, BA 2003 (2006-2007)
    
  • Elizabeth Dreeland, BA 2005 (2005-2006)

• Georgetown University English Language Fellowship
  • Kenneth Lofgren, MTESL 2003 (2008)

• Hurston-Wright Legacy Debut Fiction Award
  • Tayari Jones, MFA 2000 (2003): Leaving Atlanta (Warner Books)

• Iowa Poetry Prize, University of Iowa Press
  • Sarah Vap, MFA 2005 (2006): American Spikenard

• Jerome Fellowship, The Playwrights Center
  • Trista Baldwin, MFA 1999 (2004-2005)

• Mammoth Book Award
  • Tim Schell, MFA 1995 (2005): The Drums of Africa (Mammoth Books 2006)

• National Book Award
  • Lois Roma-Deeley, MFA 1988 (2004): Nominee

• National Poetry Series
  • Josh Rathkamp, MFA 2004 (2005): Finalist
  • Sarah Vap, MFA 2005 (2005): Finalist

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation
  • Ileana Orlich, PhD 1987 (2006-2007)
  • Christopher Burawa, BA 1987; MA 1994; MFA 2004 (2006-2007)

• National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry
  • Sean Nevin, MFA 2002 (2007-08)

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Grant
  • Dan Shilling, PhD 1987 (2009): Aldo Leopold Seminar

• Paumanok Poetry Awards, Farmington State University
  • Lois Roma-Deeley, MFA 1988 (2005): Finalist

• Penn State-Altoona Emerging Writer in Residence
  • Luke Krueger, MFA 2003 (Fall 2006)

• Pushcart Prize
  • Albino Carrillo, MFA 1993 (2003) Nominee

• Red Mountain Review Chapbook Award
  • Charles Jensen, MFA 2004 (2005): Little Burning Edens (Red Mountain Review P 2005)

• Royal Palms Literary Prize
  • Bonny Barry Sanders, MA 1983 (2005), in poetry

• San Diego Book Award for Narrative Nonfiction
  • Sharon Geyer, BA 1998 (2004): Daughter of Jerusalem: An American Woman's Journey of Faith (Faithwalk, 2003)

• Santa Fe Writer's Project Award
  • Jennifer Spiegel, MFA 2003 (2003): Honorable Mention, “Nipples Beads Mealie Pap” Santa Fe Writers Project Online (www.sfwp.org)

• Slapering Hol Press Prize
  • Sean Nevin, MFA 2002 (2005): A House That Falls, forthcoming November 2005

• Sonoran Prize for Poetry
  • Kyle Grant Wilson, MFA 2005 (2005): 3rd prize, "Into the Valley of Webbed Rivers"

• TETYC Best Article of the Year Award, National Council of Teachers of English
  • Jeff Andelora, PhD 2005 (2005): "The Teacher/Scholar: Reconstructing Our Professional Identity in Two Year Colleges." Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC) (March 2005).

• Toad Press International Chapbook Contest
  • Christopher Burawa, BA 1987; MA 1994; MFA 2004 (2005): Of the Same Mind, by Johann Hjalmarsson, trans. from the Icelandic

• USA Today All-USA College Academic Honors
  • Elizabeth Dreeland, BA 2005 (2006): Honorable Mention

• Winnow Press Open Book Award
  • Jen Currin, MFA 2002 (2005): Hagiography

• Witter Bynner Translation Residency
  • Christopher Burawa, BA 1987; MA 1994; MFA 2004 (2006)

University Awards

• ASU Alumni Association Alumni Achievement Award
  • Dan Shilling, PhD 1987 (2004-2005)

• ASU English Outstanding Faculty Mentor to Graduate Student Award
  • Darren Crovitz, PhD 2005 (2004-2005): Peer Mentor

• ASU Entrepreneurial Advantage Grant
  • Charles Jensen, MFA 2004 (2008): Locuspoint magazine

• ASU College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Convocation Speaker
  • Jerry Dumas, BA 1954 (2005)

• ASU Preparing Future Faculty Outstanding Mentor Award
  • Darren Crovitz, PhD 2005 (2006)

• ASU Graduate and Professional Student Teaching Excellence Award
  • Christina Francis, PhD 2004 (2003-2004)

• ASU Women's Studies Summer Research Award
  • Ileana Orlich, PhD 1987 (2002)