Bynum Wins Whiting Writing Award
October 31, 2005
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, associate professor of writing in the department of literature, is one of 10 winners of the 2005 Whiting Writers' Award. The $40,000 award recognizes "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise."
Bynum received the prestigious award at a ceremony held Oct. 27, in New York. She was cited by the Whiting selection committee for her "acute writerly intelligence" and for being "full of inventive promise and daring."
Bynum's first novel, "Madeleine Is Sleeping", was published by Harcourt in 2004 and was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also the author of several highly regarded short stories, including one appearing in The Best American Short Stories of 2004.
A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Bynum started teaching at UCSD this year. She specializes in and teaches courses on fiction writing, the novella, hypertext, fabulism and theory for writers.
The Whiting Award has been presented since 1985. Among past recipients who have later achieved prominence in their field are Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Franzen, Tony Kushner, Alice McDermott and Suzan-Lori Parks.
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