On October 1, 2026 we celebrated the recipients of this year’s graduate studies awards Liz Gardner (Mary O’Donnell Award) and Talia Gray (Mildred Kates Award). The Mary O’Donnell Award for Graduate Studies is designed to reward the same type of resilience and perseverance in completing a graduate degree as Mary… Continue reading…
Beth Carlin ’14, ’17 MA, ’26 PhD, is a Navy veteran, a member of the Navy Reserve, and a scholar of American literature.
Dr. Erin Green won the CCCC 2026 Lavender Rhetorics Dissertation Award for her dissertation, “Writing Abolition: Dismantling Carceral Literacies of the Prison-Industrial Complex through Black Queer Activism.” The Lavender Rhetorics awards recognize excellent, original, significant, and influential scholarship that makes outstanding queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric. Her dissertation also received… Continue reading…
This is a story of two Spartan MFA poets, born six decades apart.
The 2026 Gladys Strawn Bullard awardees are always at the forefront of new opportunities for success, taking initiative and creating spaces where students can turn their dreams into action.
Dr. Heather Adams, associate professor of English, receives the Early Career Research Excellence Award for her groundbreaking scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies, with interdisciplinary specializations spanning feminist theory, feminist historiography, gendered health studies, reproduction studies, and public emotion.
Executive Director Ma’Kayla Jefcoat ’20, ’22 MPA, like many alumnae now working full-time at GCPA, began as an intern while she was earning her master of public affairs with a concentration in non-profit management, having moved onto graduate school immediately after getting her bachelor’s in English from UNCG.
From the chemistry labs of Yale to the operating rooms at Duke, the journey for Joey Lew ’19 M.F.A., M.D. is anything but typical. What distinguishes her path is not just a lifelong passion for medicine, but two transformative years at UNC Greensboro shaping her creative outlet. Her M.F.A. in poetry weaves together the precision of surgery with the artistry of verse.
Honoring the life of Fred Chappell, former Poet Laureate of North Carolina and UNC Greensboro Professor Emeritus.
Congratulations to Evangeline Grace Lothian (B.A. 2025) for publishing her debut novel with SnowRidge Press! Olympia A god without a hero is nothing. But a hero without a god might save the world…if they can survive the gods. The land of the Greek gods is in danger, weakened after centuries… Continue reading…
