{"id":7197,"date":"2026-08-04T19:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:09:09","slug":"poet-jane-huffman-awarded-2026-vu-literary-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/poet-jane-huffman-awarded-2026-vu-literary-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Jane Huffman awarded 2026 VU Literary Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dilemma<\/em>, by Jane Huffman, has been selected as the 2026 winner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vuliteraryprize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanderbilt University Literary Prize<\/a>. The prize, which is awarded to the sole author of a full-length poetry collection, reflects the university\u2019s ongoing commitment to discovering new voices and supporting the arts as transformative and essential to society. The recognition includes the publication of the winning manuscript in print, electronic and audio formats by Vanderbilt University Press, a $10,000 honorarium, an invitation to read in the esteemed Gertrude C. and Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series at Vanderbilt University and a one-week residency on campus to engage students and local writers in the Nashville community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7198\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/08\/Huffman-photo-600x450-1-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Huffman is also the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coppercanyonpress.org\/books\/public-abstract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Public Abstract<\/em><\/a>, winner of the 2023 <em>American Poetry Review<\/em>\/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a doctoral candidate in English and literary arts at the University of Denver and earned an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in <em>The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books <\/em>(LARB) and elsewhere. She was a 2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She teaches at the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2026\/07\/15\/vanderbilt-awards-2026-vu-literary-prize-to-poet-jane-huffman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to read the full coverage.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/news\/\">MORE NEWS<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilemma, by Jane Huffman, has been selected as the 2026 winner of the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. The prize, which is awarded to the sole author of a full-length poetry collection, reflects the university\u2019s ongoing commitment to discovering new voices and supporting the arts as transformative and essential to society. The recognition includes the publication&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":7199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,8,22],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-04-142856.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7197\/revisions\/7207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}