The literary success continues for Jacqueline He, grade 11, who was recently awarded second place in the fiction portion of the Bennington College Young Writers Awards. More than 2,000 students from across the world entered this year’s contest, held by Vermont’s Bennington College, whose alumni have included Pulitzer Prize winners, poet laureates and a MacArthur Fellow.

Earlier this year, He received four Gold Keys and four Silver Keys in the 2017 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and took first place in the high school poetry category in Writing Conference Inc.’s 2017 Writing Contest. In December, she was named a national finalist in the 2017 YoungArts Competition.