SYLVIA D TORTI portrait
  • Associate Professor (Lecturer), Honors College
  • Professor (Lecturer), Honors College
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
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Honors & Awards

  • Finalist, novel competition for Cages. Schaffner Press, 02/2016
  • Short-listed in novel competition, novel Cages. Santa Fe Writers Project, 02/2016
  • Runner-up Short Story Contest, "Bread and Stone". FISH Press, 09/2011
  • Finalist, Short Story Contest, for "Bread and Stone". Cutthroat Press, 10/2009
  • Miguel Marmol Award, for first fiction by American of Latino descent. Curbstone Press, 10/2005
  • General (Adult Fiction) for "The Scorpion's Tail". Book of the Year Award Finalist, INDIEFAB , 09/2005
  • Third place for "Experimenting with Birds". River City Short Story Contest, 02/2004
  • Finalist for Short Story, "Experimenting with Birds". Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, 02/2004
  • Fully-funded 6 week fellowship at Writers Residency in Brazil. Sacatar Foundation, 09/2003
  • Writers retreat. Hedgebrook Writers Retreat, 09/2002
  • First Place, Short Story Contest, for "January 1, 1994". City Weekly, 04/2000
  • Research Fellowship. Sigma Xi, 02/1996
  • NSF Predoctoral Fellowship. National Science Foundation, 04/1995

Affiliations

  • Mapping Meaning , Co-director, 05/2012 - present

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