Faculty Awards and Honors
Professor Micah Perks
2008 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship
The Captivity And Restoration Of Mary Rowlandson, My Mother And Me
Associate Professor Micah Perks and Professor Georges Van Den Abbeele
National Endowment for the Arts - Access to Artistic Excellence
The Big Read - Celebration of Central Coast Poet Robinson Jeffers
Professor Ronaldo V. Wilson
2021 University of California, Santa Cruz Committee on Research (COR) Faculty Research Grant Award for "Silent Incantations: Learning My Mother’s Language"
2016 Finalist for the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry for Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other (Counterpath Press, 2015)
2010 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry for Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009)
2007 Cave Canem Prize for Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008)
Professor Jennifer Tseng
2019 Winner, Editors Prize for Feature Article, Poetry Magazine, Chicago, IL.
2018 Fiction Fellow, Bread Loaf Writers ’ Conference, Middlebury, VT.
2018 Finalist, Firecracker Award in Fiction, New York, NY.
2018 Distinguished Story, Best American Short Stories , ed. by Roxanne Gay
2018 Winner, The Eric Hoffer Award, Chapbook Category, Titusville, NJ.
2017 Winner, Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest, Brookline, MA.
2016 Winner, Bateau Press Boom Chapbook Contest. Bar Harbor, ME.
2016 Finalist, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, New York, NY.
2015 Finalist, New England Book Award in Fiction, New England Independent Booksellers. Cambridge, MA.
2012 Winner, Marick Press Poetry Prize, Grosse Pointe, MI.
2006 Winner, PEN American Center Open Book Award, New York, NY.
2004 Winner, Asian American Writers ’ Workshop National Poetry Manuscript Competition, New York, NY.
2000-2002 Fiction Fellow, Second-Year Fiction Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
Lecturer Gary Young
2010 Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate
2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America
Professor Rob Wilson
Professor Emerita Karen Tei Yamashita
2021 University of California, Santa Cruz Committee on Research (COR) Faculty Research Grant Award for "Japanese American Incarceration: The Origins of the Loyalty Questionnaire"
2011 United States Artists Fellowship Grant
2011 California Book Award Gold Medal in Fiction for I Hotel
2011 Asian/Pacific American Literature Award for Adult Fiction for I Hotel
2010 Nominated for National Book Award in Fiction for I Hotel
Professor Emeritus Nathaniel Mackey
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry
2008 Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association
2007 Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, Archive for New Poetry at UCSD
2007 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem
2007 Individual Artist's Grant in Poetry, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2006 National Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem
