Greg Grandin ’92, along with M.F.A. in creative writing alumni Helen Phillips ’07, and Ocean Vuong ’12, and are all shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards鈥擯hillips for her novel The Need; Vuong for On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous; and Grandin for The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.