GAYNELL GAVIN
Assistant Professor of English
Depatrtment of English

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EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. - English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• M.A. - English, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
• J.D. - Washington University School of Law
• B.A. - English, Principia College

HONORS/AWARDS:

• Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award Series in Creative Nonfiction finalist
• UNL Humanities Center Award for Graduate Research and Creative Activity
• Irish Fest Donn Goodwin Poetry Award
• Louise Pound Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Audre Lorde Creative Writing Award, The Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives
• Academy of American Poets, Wilbur Gaffney Award, First Place
• Karen Dunning Graduate Women's Studies Scholarly Paper Award, "Let Them Eat Babies: Gender, Genre, the Maternal, Material, and Satirical"
• Edna St. Vincent Millay Ballad of the Harp Weaver Contest, fourth place.
• Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards
• National Writers Union Poetry Competition finalist
• The Nation Discovery Poetry Contest finalist
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Major Fellowship
• Human Rights and Human Diversity Initiative Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Public Discourse and Human Values Initiative Awards, University of Nebraska-Lincoln .
• Iowa Literary Awards, First Place , Nonfiction, "Sleeping on the Perimeter"
• Warren F. and Edith R. Day Dissertation Travel Award, Office of Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Client Counseling Competition finalist, Washington University School of Law
• Moot Court Competition finalist, Washington University School of Law