Hope Wabuke, assistant professor of English, is one of 37 writers to receive a $27,000 individual creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The 2017 fellowships are in poetry. More than 1,800 applied for the honor.
Wabuke is a writer, essayist and poet born in exile to Ugandan refugees. Her creative and scholarly work explores the literature of African scattered around the globe as well as larger questions related to immigration and refugees.
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