Presented to: Cindy Lesser Larsen
For: "Whoever Heard of a Utah Poet?: An Overview of Poetry in the Early Church"
The awards committee felt that Larsen's essay "embodies the important virtues of our discipline: solid scholarship, an excellent grasp of subject matter, and the careful workings of a keen analytical mind." "This critically perceptive survey of early Mormon poets makes an important contribution to Mormon literary history and is especially noteworthy as a model of undergraduate scholarship."