Stefan Leiva (left) and Guadalupe Salgado Partida
Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing each spring awards its annual Andrés Montoya Memorial Scholarships, supported by the Montoya family, the Department of English, and community donors. Each writing prize is $500. Here are the 2024 recipients.
Judge: Steven Sanchez, author of Phantom Tongue
Recipient: Stefan Leiva, second-year MFA fiction student
Recipient: Guadalupe Salgado Partida, incoming MFA poetry student