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MICHAEL MEJIA

Associate Professor

English

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  • Associate Professor
    English

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    FILMéxico Committee, Salt Lake Film Society
    13 Aug 2025
  • PROFESSIONAL BOARD OR COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
    Ohio Arts Council
    14 May 2025
    Individual Excellence Awards (Fiction)
  • HONOR/AWARD
    Faculty Fellow
    1 Jul 2021
    Taft-Nicholson Center
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Coordinated Borderlands author visits with students from West High School, Salt Lake Community College, and University of Utah Spanish Language Honors Program
    18 Feb 2021 - 18 Feb 2021
    In partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies, online, February 2021.
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Community Book Discussion for 2021 Borderlands Conference, in partnership with Utah Humanities
    16 Feb 2021 - 16 Feb 2021
  • COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & OUTREACH
    Salt Lake City Art Design Board
    1 Jan 2020
  • HONOR/AWARD
    Finalist, Utah Book Award
    3 Oct 2019
    15 Bytes/Artists of Utah
  • HONOR/AWARD
    Nominated for inclusion in Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses
    1 Feb 2015
    Pushcart Press
  • HONOR/AWARD
    On Our Radar Listing
    1 May 2013
    Creative Capital
  • PROFESSIONAL BOARD OR COMMITTEE PARTICIPATION
    Fiction Collective 2
    1 Aug 2012
    Board of Directors
  • HONOR/AWARD
    Fellowship in Literature
    1 Jan 2006
    National Endowment for the Arts