Amreen Ukani at Emory University

An Anthropology major and French Studies minor at Emory, Amreen has won awards for her fiction and non-fiction, and one of her essays was nominated for the Shostak Prize for Ethnographic Writing. While at Emory, she took courses in Creatve Writing, Theater, and Spanish, in addition to courses in Anthropology and French. She also spent a semester abroad in Paris, and during the 2006-2007 academic year, she was on the Dean’s List.

After graduating in 2007, Amreen spent last year working for the Office of International Affairs and the Halle Institute as a Program Development Coordinator. In the past, she has also worked as a lighting and sound technician with Theater Emory, an intern with the Aga Khan Foundation, a restaurant reviewer for Atlanta Cuisine newspaper, and a sandwich salesgirl in a Parisian cafe. After all of that , she is pretty sure she has finally decided what she wants to do with her life (besides working at the Writing Center, of course), and is applying to MFA programs in Creative Writing and Publishing for fall 2009.

via Emory College Writing Center.