Alison C. Rollins, who graduated from Brown's MFA program in 2023, has been selected as 2026 recipient of the Whiting Award in Poetry. Congratulations, Alison!

Based on her course through which she engages Brown students with writers in the local community schools, Eleni Sikelianos, professor of Literary Arts in Poetry, has been recognized as a recipient of Brown University's Howard Swearer Engaged Faculty Award.