Congratulations to Abbey Mei Otis, the winner of the 2025-2026 Beltran Award for Innovative Teaching, presented annually to a faculty member who teaches writing in the extracurricular context of the Kelly Writers House, its projects, programs and people. Endowed in 2012 by Penn parents John Paul Beltran and Lina Beltran, the Beltran Award honors the making and sustaining of a learning environment, and the spirit of informal and outside-of-class mentoring that the best teachers embody.
Abbey will receive a stipend and will plan a public event or project that will be scheduled sometime during the upcoming academic year. See next year's Kelly Writers House calendar for details.