UA South Professor Awarded NEA Fellowship

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UA South Professor Awarded NEA Fellowship

Bisbee-based novelist Diane Freund will use the $25,000 award to finish her latest novel.

By University Communications
December 17, 2007

Diane Freund, a novelist and an associate professor of English at The University of Arizona South, has received a $25,000 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The fellowships are granted to encourage the production of new works by affording recipients time and money to write. Freund said she would use the award to finish a new novel, “Dovey.” The book is about a woman who moves to New Jersey to manage a seaside hotel populated with lonely, aged and mentally unstable people.

Freund graduated from the UA in 1991 and has won a number of awards both for writing and teaching, including the UA South Dean's Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching in 2006. Other honors include The Pirate's Alley/Faulkner prize for her novel “Four Corners” plus awards from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Phoenix Arts Commission.