Mary Gracie Meijer, from Boston College, is this year’s winner!
Gracie Meijer is a fourth-year student at Boston College studying English and Medical Humanities. When she took her first creative writing workshop, she wasn’t searching for anything in particular. While she enjoyed writing, she had never thought of it as a serious goal or career choice. Eventually, she combined her interest in medicine and began to write about her experience working as an EMT – both in Boston and at home in Michigan.
The Victor Howes Prize in Poetry is an annual award recognizing the talent of an undergraduate English major at a New England college. It is funded with a generous donation from the Victor Howes estate. Victor Howes, who passed away in 2018, was a poet, beloved professor and advocate of poets, and longtime Board Member of the New England Poetry Club.
Finalists
Eliza Dunn, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH
Riley Mayes, University of Southern Maine, Portland ME
Student Award Reading
In person, June 4, 3 PM on the lawn of the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, National Historic Site, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA.