Dr. Adrienne Perry wins Larry Levis Post-Graduate Stipend

Congratulations to Dr. Adrienne Perry, who has been awarded one of the two 2018 Larry Levis Post-Graduate Stipends. The awards, each of $5,000, are given each year to two alumni of Warren Wilson College's MFA Creative Writing program in Asheville, NC, one in poetry and one in fiction. Dr. Perry received the fiction award for her novel in progress, See Through Girls, a reimagining of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man set in contemporary New York City. Judge Paul Lisicky said: "With hilarity, a crackling mind, and sentences of great nuance and wit, See Through Girls resists easy solutions, interrogates pieties of all types, without ever giving into cynicism. Though it uses Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as a frame, this work is distinctive, utterly itself. A necessary book is coming into being."