First Place
Alexander James Eichle ’08
“Silent Night”
Alex Eichler is a news editor at HuffPost. His work has appeared at HuffPost, The Atlantic, n+1, io9, McSweeney's and The Boston Globe. He lives in Brooklyn next to a very noisy parking lot.

Second Place
Molly Beth Young ’08
"Pages from the Goncourt Journals”
Molly Young is the literary critic for New York magazine, and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. She contributes crossword puzzles to the New York Times, and is the co-author with Joana Avillez of of D C-T!, published by Penguin Press in 2018.