Shining Brightly

Jackie Kenny ’18 always loved to read. And from that naturally came an interest in writing.

So when Kenny, from Castle Rock, Colo., learned of the the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship – a full, four-year merit scholarship in creative writing in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC – as a high school senior, she immediately applied.

Kenny ultimately didn’t receive the scholarship. But because of Marianne Gingher and a few other professors in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Kenny still enrolled at Carolina.

Four years later, Kenny, a senior on the UNC rowing team, stood in front of about 250 fellow student-athletes as one of the Top 10 Scholar-Athletes, the five senior men and five senior women with the highest cumulative grade point averages.

And Kenny was also the recipient of the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Prize in Creative Writing, which is presented annually to the outstanding fiction writer in the senior class, for a collection of short stories that featured elements of magical realism and dealt with environmental themes.

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