<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div>Amazing news! I’m thrilled for you, Sara!!<div><br></div><div>Allison White<br><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 12, 2023, at 8:39 AM, Robin Russin <robin.russin@ucr.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Wow, what great news to wake up to! Loved the poems published in interimpoetics— just sad not to have had Sara in class!<div><br></div><div>Kudos, Sara!</div><div><br></div><div>Robin</div><div><br><div><br><div>On Sep 12, 2023, at 8:31 AM, Allison Hedge Coke <allisonh@ucr.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>2023 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry The University of Utah Press goes to 2022 MFA alumni Sara Ellen Fowler!!!!!!<br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, </i></font><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Distinguished Professor of </i><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Creative Writing</i></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">**She/her & </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Surname is Hedge Coke, no hyphen**</span></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="1"><i><br></i></font></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i> Weird Times, Be Kind</i></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/allisonh" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Allison Adelle Hedge Coke</a></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><i><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, </span><a href="http://writersweek.ucr.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Writers Week 2021, 2022</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">, Co-Director in Spring 2023 </span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Director, Medical Health and Humanities DE, UCR School of Medicine</div></i></font><div><i style="font-family:georgia,serif">Director, </i><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Along the Chaparral, Sandhill Crane Fest</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity (SEHE), affiliated faculty</i></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>author/editor of 18 books<br></i></font></div><font face="georgia, serif"><div><i><font color="#222222">Most recent release, National Book Award Finalist, winner Emory Elliot Book Award, Finalist for the Firecracker Award and ASLE Book Award</font></i> </div><div><i style=""><a href="https://coffeehousepress.org/collections/shop/products/look-at-this-blue" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Look at This Blue </a></i></div><div style=""><a href="tel:(951)+827-5421" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">(951) 827-5421</a> department staff<br></div></font></div><div style=""><font face="georgia, serif">(909) 848-3803 messages - VM/text</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>
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