Given to a rising junior or senior nominated and recommended by a faculty member; nominated students are asked to submit an essay discussing the value of being a Writing and Linguistics major.

Brenna Salverson is a junior at Georgia Southern University where she is double majoring in writing & linguistics and philosophy with a religious studies concentration and minoring in graphic design. Her cowboy poem “Live Outside Your Skin” appeared in Calliope in 2021. She was nominated to represent Georgia Southern University for AWP’s Intro Journals Project’s poetry category in 2020 and 2021. She was a finalist for Georgia Southern’s Brittany “Ally” Harbuck Memorial Scholarship in 2021. She is a co-emcee for Burning Swamp and loves listening to all the creative writers’ works.