Chan Awarded Fellowship from NJ State Council of the Arts

English Teacher Sarah Chan has been awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her recent work of prose written during the summer of 2018, while on a trip taken through Peck’s Ben Alexander Grant for Faculty Enrichment.

The work is a collection of short stories about growing up in Brooklyn, and is one of only five prose selections and one of 12 overall chosen for a fellowship.

"I am very grateful to Peck for encouraging me and my fellow teachers to grow personally through its summer faculty grant,” Chan said.

“At first, I wondered how I would re-enter, revisit, and re-envision these half-finished poems and stories I had not looked at for years. Then I jumped in and experienced what my students sometimes experience when facing a writing assignment: a progression from fear, confusion, and defeat to a state of self-reflection, persistence, and open-mindedness."

"Ultimately, I followed the advice that I give to my students when revising; I tried to stay true to the voice in each piece and write about what I know.”

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