Name: Lydia Abedeen

Recipient Year: 2025

Major: Creative Writing

Description: Lydia Abedeen is a second year PhD student in creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She received her MFA+MA at Northwestern's Litowitz program, and her BA from Emory University. She studies cults, ghosts, and the effects religious trauma has on women. A Tin House scholar, her writing has been supported by the University of Iowa, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and the Watering Hole. Her writing is forthcoming and published in POETS.ORG, The Rumpus, Mizna, The Margins, and Hayden's Ferry Review. Her manuscript, Half-Wife, was a 2024 National Poetry Series finalist.

School Name: University of Nebraska

Sponsor: Hashmi Family Scholarship