Awards

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The Frances Jaffer Poetry Prize

The Frances Jaffer Poetry Prize, initiated in memory of the late poet Frances Jaffer, is given to an undergraduate student in Creative Writing at SFSU on the basis of the student’s outstanding innovative work. Ms. Jaffer was prominent as a poet and editor in the Bay Area literary community, and was influential particularly on a younger generation of women writers. 

Author of two books of poetry, She Talks to Herself in the Language of An Educated Woman (Kelsey St. Press, 1981) and Alternate Endings (HOW(ever), 1985), Frances Jaffer was a founding coeditor of HOW(ever), the San Francisco-based literary journal devoted to exploring historical and contemporary innovative writing by women. 



The Frances Jaffer Poetry Prize is funded through donations from friends of Frances Jaffer, and carries a cash prize. Candidates for the Jaffer Prize are nominated by SFSU faculty.

No submissions accepted.

The Frances Jaffer Poetry Prize recipients:

2008 Diana Ybarra
2007 Leslie Patron
2006 Christopher Girard
2005 Jose Villaran
2004 Unju Chi
2003 Hongyu Min
2002 John Sakkis
2001 Mary DeNardo
2000 Cynthia Sailers

Note: This prize is coordinated with financial aid awards and handled by the San Francisco State University Financial Aid Office.



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