First Place
Vera B. Carothers ’14
“High Water Mark”
Vera Carothers is a Nonfiction MFA candidate at Columbia University and Online Nonfiction Editor at Columbia Journal. She also works as a teaching artist for The Moth. Previously, she worked as an assistant producer at WNYC and traveled the country as a bilingual facilitator with StoryCorps. Her audio work has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, NPR's Latino USA, WNYC, WAMU and Panoply. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University.

Second Place
Sienna J. Zeilinger ’15
“Home In”
Sienna Zeilinger lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she works as a college access advisor in various local high schools. Since graduating, her writing has appeared in Real Life, Salon, and Missing Providence: A Frequency Anthology, and is forthcoming at Curbed. Her best editors continue to be her fellow Brown grads!