Tanya Perkins, MA, MFA

Awards, Grants and Recognitions

  • Outstanding Faculty Award, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IU East, 2025.
  • IU Foundation Affinity Grant, Embedded Tutors Pilot Program. $18,000, Co-recipient, 2025.
  • The Helen Lees Award for Excellence in Teaching, IU East, 2025.
  • Chancellor’s Community Service Grant. Co-recipient, IU East, 2022.
  • The Masters Review Prize for Flash Fiction. Judge: Stuart Dybeck. 2021.
  • FACET Peer Review Fellowship, IU, 2020.
  • New Frontiers Exploration Travel Grant, IU, 2019.
  • Teacher-Scholar Award, IU East, 2019.
  • FACET membership, IU, 2018
  • Boschmann Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant, IU East, 2018.
  • Mosaic Faculty Fellowship, IU, 2017-2018.
  • Assessment Champion Award, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IU East, 2017.
  • Exemplary Service Learning Engagement with Community and Professional Writing, IU East Center for Service Learning, 2016.
  • Indiana University Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Grant, Red Wolves Write community writing program. Co-recipient, 2015.
  • Center for Teaching and Learning Innovative Teaching Fellowship, IU East, 2014.
  • Summer Research Fellowship, IU East, 2014, 2018.
  • LEADS High Impact Teaching Practices grant, IU East, 2014.
  • Postgraduate scholar, Kentucky Women Writers Conference grant, 2013.
  • Excellence in Teaching by a Grad. Instructor, English Dept., Western Washington U., 2011.