Lynne Bekdash (BA 2020, Creative Writing and Literature; BBA 2020, Business Administration) has won the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem, “Immigrant Daughter Ghazal.” Lynne would like to thank “my amazing thesis advisor, Sarah Messer, my second reader, Laura Kasischke, and A. Van Jordan, who taught me how to write ghazals—in fact, I first wrote this poem for his class!” Lynne also wants to thanks Laura Thomas, the creative writing program, and Rebecca Manery from the Hopwood Program.”
