Two university professors in the Inland Northwest are among three Idaho writers who received literature fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

The Idaho Commission on the Arts awarded the $5,000 fellowships to Georgia Pearle Foster, Cameron McGill and Alexandra Teague. The awards, given every two years, recognize outstanding writers whose work exhibits the highest artistic merit during peer review.

Applicants were reviewed anonymously in a highly competitive process by out-of-state panelists and judged on existing work and professional history.

McGill, an associate professor at Washington State University, is a poet, educator and songwriter originally from Champaign, Illinois. He is the author of "In the Night Field" and "Meridians," with poems forthcoming in Blackbird, Denv

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