 Rwanda Inc., How a Devastated Nation Became an Economic Model for the Developing World. Those are quite books, amazing books. Tricia received a Master's of Fine Arts recently from Northwestern University, where she received the Distinguished Thesis Award in Creative Writing. She also received the Grand Prize for Fiction from Tallgrass Writers Guild Outrider Press for a story, Loon Magic and Other Night Sounds. Tricia, also the author of a collection of short stories, essays titled Inspired Every Day, published by Hallmark.