Alumni Highlight: Shawn Vestal
MFA Alumni Accomplishment
June 22, 2021
Shawn Vestal, alum and visiting writer/professor at Eastern, received the $25,000 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for his short story collection Godforsaken Idaho. The award was announced in September of 2014 by the PEN American Center and he received the prize from Louise Erdrich at a ceremony at the New School.
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