Alex Lumans

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Alexander Lumans was awarded a 2018 NEA Grant in Creative Writing (Prose). He was selected by Philip Roth as the Spring 2014 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. He was also awarded a fellowship to the 2015 Arctic Circle Residency, where he sailed around Svalbard, Norway in a tall ship. He has received support from MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA, Brush Creek Foundation, Jentel Foundation, the Arteles Creative Center in Finland, ART:OMI, the Ragdale Foundation, the Orchard House, the Hambidge Center, Blue Mountain Center, ART342, Norton Island, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. He has been awarded scholarships to RopeWalk Writers Retreat, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He received the 2015 Wabash Fiction Prize from Sycamore Review, the 2013 Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, 3rd place in the 2012 Story Quarterly Fiction Contest, and the 2011 Barry Hannah Fiction Prize from The Yalobusha Review. He also received 2016 and 2018 Colorado Career Advancement Awards.

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