Humanities major Jennifer Burnham was awarded first place for undergraduate fiction this year in the Center of the American West鈥檚 Thompson Awards for Western American Writing.
Each year, thanks to the generosity and kind support of CU alumni Jeannie and Jack Thompson, the Center of the American West awards cash prizes to talented CU students writing on Western topics. Judges from a broad range of scholarship and specialties seek writing with vibrancy and appeal to a broad, informed audience.听Categories include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and memoir/essay. The contest culminated in April with a dazzling awards banquet to honor the winners and the many participating judges.
Jennifer Burnham is an English and Humanities major and Ethnic Studies minor. She is听also a full-time employee at CU Boulder. Her area of academic focus is the examination听of realized and non-realized Native American Indian stereotypes and empirical epistemologies in contemporary speculative fiction. Her award-winning piece, 鈥淭wo Trails I Remember,鈥� is听situated in the four corners region. The most challenging aspect of this story is to bring听attention to American Indian stereotypes while offering an alternative narration as a听non-Native writer. The novel is expected to be complete by September of 2012.
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Congratulations, Jennifer!