First Place
Joseph E. Glaser-Reich ’11
“The Operation”
Joe currently jumps out of perfectly good helicopters for a living as a rescue swimmer with the U.S. Coast Guard. He also works for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Psychological Health group to help integrate positive and performance psychology into the training of Coast Guard rescue swimmers and other DHS operators. In his free time, Joe moonlights as an Assistant Instructor for the University of Pennsylvania’s Master of Applied Positive Psychology Program.

Second Place​
Dayna M. Tortorici ’11.5
“Reelin’: A Graphic Essay”

Honorable Mentions​
Panpan Song '12
"3.14"

Fred Milgrim '12
"Surreality"
Fred Milgrim is an Emergency Department resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He worked briefly as a reporter in New York after graduation. He covered the Boston Marathon bombing as a reporter, and coronavirus as an ER doctor on the front lines, after which he appeared on Anderson Cooper. He has been published in The Daily, Fast Company, Esquire Magazine and The Atlantic. Fred studied Creative Nonfiction Writing at Brown, class of 2012.