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Animesh Sabnis '03, MD, is a neonatologist and assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA.
School of the Arts faculty members Hilton Als, Associate Professor of Writing, and Lynn Nottage, Associate Professor of Theatre, have been awarded 2017 Pulitzer Prizes in Criticism and Drama, respectively.
Six School of the Arts alumni have once again received Guggenheim Fellowships this year: Gregory Pardlo ‘16 and Claudia Rankine '93 in Poetry; Brian Seibert '05 in Dance Studies; Antonio Méndez Esparza '08 in Film/Video; Rogelio Martinez '96 in Drama & Performance Art; and Leigh Ledare '08 in Photography.
Writing Program alumna Crystal Hana Kim ‘14 has won a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Writing Program alumni Gregory Pardlo '16 and Karolina Waclawiak '10 have been announced as two of the judges of the 2017 National Book Awards. Pardlo, who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will judge in the Poetry category alongside poets Nick Flynn, Jane Mead, Richard Siken, and Monica Youn. Waclawiak, who has published the novels How to Get Into the Twin Palmsand The Invaders, will judge in the Fiction category, alongside Alexander Chee, Dave Eggers, Annie Philbrick, and Jacqueline Woodson.
Richard Howard, a poet and emeritus professor in the Writing Program, will receive the Paris Review’s 2017 Hadada Prize.
Alumna and adjunct professor Mia Alvar ’07 won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which “honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work—a novel or collection of short stories—represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.”
