The Department congratulates Yuan FANG, the 2008 winner of the Mactaggart Writing Award. Yuan, who graduated this June with a major in Japanese and a minor in Chinese, used her $12,000 prize to travel to some major cities in Europe this spring. Well done, Yuan!
For a fuller account, see www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm. Yuan Fang's prize-winning short story, "Green Silk Butterfly," can be read at uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arts_dev/pdf/GreenSilkButterfly.pdf.