Editing Hopwood Award (section)

==Notable Hopwood winners==
*[[Max Apple]], (BA 1963). Author of: "The Oranging of America" (1976, short stories), "Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right" (1978, novel), "Three Stories" (1983, short stories), "Free Agents" (1984, novel), "The Propheteers: A Novel" (1987, novel), "Roommates: My Grandfather's Story" (1994, biography, of Apple's grandfather)
*[[Brett Ellen Block]], (BFA) award-winning short story author and novelist.
*[[Victoria Chang]], (BA 1992) poet and children's writer. Recipient of 2017 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].  
*[[John Ciardi]], (MA 1939) author of: A Browser's Dictionary, A Second Browser's Dictionary, A Third Browser's Dictionary, The Collected Poems of John Ciardi, Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown, American Language, How Does a Poem Mean?, His translation of The Inferno, Limericks (with Isaac Asimov), You Read to Me, I'll Read to You, (illustrated by Edward Gorey)
*[[Harold Courlander]], (BA 1931) First winner of the award & author of [[The African (Courlander novel)|The African]], on which much of [[Roots: The Saga of an American Family|Roots]] was later based.
*[[Christopher Paul Curtis]] (BA 1999) Newbery and Coretta Scott King award-winning author of: The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 (1996, novel), Bud, Not Buddy (1999, novel), Elijah Of Buxton (2006, novel)
*[[Rebecca Frazier]], (BA 1998), [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] singer. Received the award twice.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Vloet |first=Katie |date=November 11, 2013 |title=Bluegrass as a Cure for the Blues |url=https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/news-events/all-news/search-news/bluegrass-as-a-cure-for-the-blues.html |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=University of Michigan LSA |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Mary Gaitskill]], (BA) Bad Behavior (1988), Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991), Because They Wanted To (1997) (stories), Veronica (2005).
*[[Peggy Goodin]], (AB 1945) author of ''Clemetine'', ''Take Care of My Little Girl''; novels adapted multiple times to film
*[[Steve Hamilton (author)|Steve Hamilton]], (BA 1983), author of "Blood Is the Sky", "North of Nowhere", "A Cold Day in Paradise", "Winter of the Wolf Moon", "The Hunting Wind", "North of Nowhere", and "Ice Run". "A Cold Day In Paradise," won the 1999 [[Edgar Award|Edgar Allan Poe Award]], one of the mystery genre's most prestigious awards.
*[[Cynthia Haven]], author of "Czesław Miłosz: A California Life" (2021) nominated for a Northern California Book Award, and "Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard" (2018).
*[[Robert Hayden]], (M.A. 1944). Former [[Poet Laureate of the United States]].
*[[Garrett Hongo]], a finalist for the 1989 [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] and winner of the 1987 Lamont Poetry Prize.
*[[Lawrence Kasdan]] (MA) three-times [[Academy Award]]s-nominated screenwriter and director. 
*[[Laura Kasischke]] (BA 1983, M.F.A. 1987) winner of the [[National Book Critics Circle Award]] for Poetry and a [[Pushcart Prize|Pushcart prize]]. 
*[[Jane Kenyon]], (BA 1970, MA 1972). New Hampshire's poet laureate. Winner of a [[PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry]]
*[[Elizabeth Kostova]], (MFA) Novel-in-Progress [[The Historian]]
*[[Arthur Miller]] (BA 1938) [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] winning playwright. 
*[[Howard Moss]], won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] for ''Selected Poems'' in 1971.
*[[Davi Napoleon]], (BA 1966, MA 1968; known then as Davi Skurnick), theater historian and critic, author of ''[[Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater]].''
*[[Celeste Ng]], (MFA) Novelist. Author of [[Little_Fires_Everywhere_(novel)|Little Fires Everywhere]].
*[[Chigozie Obioma]], (MFA) Nigerian writer. Finalist for 2015 [[Man Booker Prize]] and [[The Guardian]] First Book Award. 
*[[Frank O'Hara]], (M.A. 1951), poet. Leading figure of the [[New York School (art)|New York School]]. Author of: "A City Winter and Other Poems", "Oranges: 12 pastorals", "Second Avenue", "Odes", "Lunch Poems. Love Poems".
*[[Patrick O'Keeffe (writer)|Patrick O'Keeffe]], (MFA), winner of the [[Chamberlain Award]] for Creative Writing for "Above the Bar." (administered by the Hopwood Program) and instructor in the University of Michigan's [[Sweetland Writing Center]] has won the 2005 [[Story Prize]], the richest U.S. prize for short fiction, for "The Hill Road", a collection of four novellas set in a fictional Irish farming village. O'Keeffe's writing has been compared to the Irish short-story and novel writer [[William Trevor]].
*[[Marge Piercy]], (BA) Poetry and Fiction (1957); author of seventeen volumes of poems
*[[Paisley Rekdal]], (MFA) poet and essayist. [[Poet Laureate]] of Utah.
*[[Theodore Roethke]], (B.A. 1930, M.A. 1932) regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. Winner of a [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] and two [[National Book Awards]] for Poetry.
*[[Betty Smith]] (B.A.) Author of ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]''
*[[Danez Smith]] (MFA) Poet. Finalist for 2017 [[National Book Award]] for Poetry.
*[[Keith Waldrop]] (Ph.D. 1964) poet and translator. Winner of a [[National Book Award]] for Poetry. 
*[[Ronald Wallace (poet)|Ronald Wallace]]
*[[Jesmyn Ward]], (MFA 2005), novelist. Two-time winner of [[National Book Award]] for Fiction (2011, 2017).
*[[Nancy Willard]] (B.A. 1958; Ph.D.) author of eleven poetry books.  Newbery Medal for "A Visit to William Blakes' Inn," finalist for National Book Award, O'Henry Award, Devins Poetry Award.