In 2005, the Kratz Center for Creative Writing awarded three Summer Fellowships to support creative writing projects.

Elizabeth Kaldor, a junior received $1500 to attend the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she will study fiction writing with Grace Paley.

Scott Sell, a senior, received $1000 to offset travel to the towns at which the writer Raymond Carver was born and raised (Clatskanie, Oregon, and Yakima, Washington). Scott will also travel to Westfield, Massachusetts, one of the town’s where Scott’s own descendents were raised. Scott’s goal is to research the connections between Raymond Carver’s genealogy and his own and produce creative nonfiction on the topic.

Adrienne Casalena, a senior, received $2500 to offset travel to Siena, Italy to take intensive language and literature courses at the Center for Study Abroad. Her goal is to deepen her exploration of her Italian heritage and produce poems that engage the Italian language and her Italian roots.