Notable Alumni

 

John Adams | 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner for music composition | On the Transmigration of Souls

John Luther Adams | 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for music composition | Become Ocean

Sidra Bell | 2011 First Prize for Choreography at the Solo Tanz Theater Festival in Stuttgart, Germany; 2015 National Dance Production Award (NEFA)

Sarah M. Broom | 2019 National Book Award | The Yellow House

Ayad Akhtar | 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama | Disgraced

Krista DeNio | 2021 California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow

Ken Eklund | Peabody Legacy Award for the alternate reality game | World Without Oil

Yalitza Ferreras | 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for Fiction

Malcom Margolin | 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman’s Commendation

Viet Thanh Nguyen |  2016 Pulitzer Prize winner for literature | The Sympathizer

Preeti Kaur Rajpal | 2022 McKnight Artist Fellowship in Creative Writing

Lava Thomas | 2020 San Francisco Artadia Award; 2015 Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors

Monique Truong | 2021 John Dos Passos Prize for Literature

Preeti Vangani | 2022 PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize for short story | Work Wives

Peter Walter | 2014 Lasker Prize winner in biology