Best Essay Competition Archive

2020 winners were:

Best Essay – Creative category

1^st prize: Emma Every, for her essay “Hospice: The House Between Worlds”

2^nd prize: Yunee Park, for her essay, “Pretty”

Best Essay – Critical Essay category

1^st prize: Lily Wieland, for her essay, “Optimism, Despair, and ‘Balanced Hope’”

2^nd prize: Rishab Ramapriyan, for his essay, “Coming face-to-face with death in When Breath Becomes Air”

Honorable Mention: Neha Tallapragada, for her essay, “Being Transgender in America”

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