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Fresno writer Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras, a two-time Fresno State alumna, has won a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Among the largest awards offered to young poets successful the United States, the $27,000 prize is intended to enactment exceptional U.S. poets betwixt 21 and 31 years of age.
Hernandez Monjaras earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in originative penning this past May, and she was named the Graduate Dean’s Medalist for the College of Arts and Humanities. A transportation pupil from Fresno City College, she earned her bachelor’s grade successful originative penning from Fresno State successful 2021.
During her clip arsenic a postgraduate student, Hernandez Monjaras worked arsenic an editorial adjunct for the university’s Philip Levine Prize for Poetry publication contention and arsenic a teaching subordinate for the English Department. She is wide published successful literate journals, and has poems forthcoming successful the HarperCollins anthology “Undocupoetics: An Introduction.”
