2011 FAW Foundation Fund Scholarship Winners

Tara Sparks

Tara Sparks will graduate with a Master's degree from National Louis University this month. She has focused on comedy writing and co-wrote, produced and directed the sketch comedy revue, Let's Call It Ralph, which ran at Donny's Skybox in the summer of 2009. Her play, Belly Dance was selected by the Chicago's Writer's Bloc for presentation in their 2011 Festival of New Plays at the Wit Theater.

Jake Wrenn

Jake Wrenn is studying creative writing at Roosevelt University. His fiction appeared in Palooka, a literary magazine and won an award from Glimmer Train, a nationally distributed literary journal. Born and raised in the Chicago area, he currently lives with his family in Downers Grove.