Suji Kwock Kim (artist-in-residence, 2006) has received a 2006 Whiting Writers Award. The awards of $40,000 each are given annually to emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (artist-in-residence, 2004) is one of six recipients of the 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards, which are given annually to women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers. The awards of $15,000 were presented to the six recipients in New York City on September 14th.

Michelle Wildgen’s (artist-in-residence 2002) novel, You’re Not You, was published in June by St. Martin’s Press.