- Creative writing professor Tobias Wolff, MA ’78, won the $20,000 Story Prize for short fiction for Our Story Begins: New and Collected Stories.
- Jane Golden, ’75, who directs the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, received the Katharine Hepburn Medal from a center at Bryn Mawr College.
- English professor Seth Lerer won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle award for criticism for Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter. Kathryn Harrison, ’82, was a finalist for the group’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
- Kathryn Ma, ’78, MA ’78, won the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Award for her collection All That Work and Still No Boys.
