Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) competed in the summer Flagstaff Epee Event fencing competition on Saturday, August 24, earning a bronze medal in the D and Under event and 7th place in Senior Mixed Open. These results renew Cohen's national D rating, previously earned in 2022.    

Joshua Chévere Cohen (Black Mountain Institute) qualified to compete in the 2024 USA Fencing National Championships and July Challenge taking place this summer in Columbus. OH. He will compete in Division III Men's Epee. With more than 4,500 fencers from nearly every state expected to participate, Summer Nationals is both the largest fencing…

Laurence Myers Reese (Black Mountain Institute) published an article titled, "Verdant Refuge / Desert Refugee," in Southwest Contemporary Magazine, Volume 7: "Finding Water in the West." His article profiles the artwork of Nanda Sharif-Pour (MFA, Art, 2019) and her use of artistic interventions that address immigration and climate change.

Jericho Brown (Black Mountain Institute) has been awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his poetry collection The Tradition. The collection was described as "masterful lyrics that combine delicacy with historical urgency in their loving evocation of bodies vulnerable to hostility and violence." Brown is the poetry editor of The…

Amanda Fortini (Journalism) recently won the prestigious Rabkin Prize. The fourth annual Rabkin Prize for Arts Writers, given by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, recognizes outstanding contributions by critics who write on visual arts. The prize was awarded to nine writers nationally. Each honoree will receive $50,000.…

The Believer, the flagship magazine of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, is a finalist for the 2020 National Magazine Awards in three categories. “Cabramatta,” an interactive comic by Matt Huynh supported by the Tran Thi Oanh Black Mountain Institute Fund, was nominated in the Digital Innovation category…

Lillehammer Allen (BMI) and Susanna Newbury (Art) sat down to write about land art, mariscos, and Las Vegas for Nevada Humanities' Double Down blog. The essay, Double Down's first bilingual entry, looks at alums Justin Favela, '14 BA Art, and Mikayla Whitmore's, '10 BFA Art, tongue-in-cheek installation of a sculpture called Seven Magic Tires in…

Joe Milan, Jr. (English and Black Mountain Institute) won the prestigious David K. Wong Fellowship, "a unique and generous annual award to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about East and Southeast Asia to spend a year in the UK at the University of East Anglia in Norwich." The fellowship commences in October. Milan is…

Black Mountain Institute (Liberal Arts) recently sold out of its Spring 2019 "Disarm"-themed issue of Witness magazine. Included in the issue are the winners and runners-up of the inaugural Witness Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry, chosen by judges Lesley Nneka Arimah and Hanif Abdurraqib.    

Kate Shapiro (English) and Joe Milan Jr. (English and Black Mountain Institute), along with alumni Olufunke Ogundimu, '18 MFA Creative Writing, and Ernie Wang, '16 MFA Creative Writing, recently have won prestigious national and international awards for their fiction. Shapiro, a master's student in the English department's creative…

David Morris (English) is the author of the book The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder,  which this month was recognized by The New York Times as "What to read in the face of trauma." According to the Times, "Morris, a former Marine who suffered from PTSD on his return from Iraq, traces the historical understanding of…

Olivia Clare (Black Mountain Institute) has received a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. The awards are given annually to six women who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their writing careers. Each recipient is awarded $30,000. The Rona Jaffe awards program is the only national literary awards program of its kind…