The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Giovannai Rosa, MFA ’25, has been named a 2025 Gregory Djanikian Scholar in Poetry by The Adroit Journal. Adroit recognizes six emerging poets each year, who receive stipends and publication. Read the full press release here.

Giovannai Rosa is a writer, editor, and artist from Miami. A 2023 Tin House Reading Fellow, 2023 Tin House Scholar, and 2022 Periplus Fellow, their work has been housed in Ploughshares, Passages North, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Offing, Oxford American, and more. As an editor at The Hopkins Review, they curated “Estuary: a series on poets before the first book.” Find them at giovarosa.com.