Portrait of Twister Marquiss

Twister Marquiss

  • Mgr, Marketing & Communications at McCoy College of Business, McCoy College of Business

Awards

2019

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Guest Coach, Texas State University Women's Basketball Team. December 4, 2019

2018

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Service Pin, 15 Years, Texas State University. 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Texas State University Quarterly Team Award, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. December 6, 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. May 2018

2017

  • Award / Honor Recipient: VATS Coin of Excellence (challenge coin), Veterans Alliance of Texas State, Texas State University. 2017
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Excellence in Diversity Awards, Team Award, Office of Equity and Access. 2017
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Collegiate Honor Society, Texas Iota Chapter, Texas State University. April 2017

2016

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Foundations of Excellence Award, Student Foundation, Texas State University. 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. December 2016
  • Award / Honor Nominee: 2017 Bobcat Preview Den Namesake, Bobcat Preview. November 2, 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Foundations of Excellence Award, Texas State University Student Foundation. October 12, 2016
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Texas State Quarterly Team Award, Texas State University. March 21, 2016

2015

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Collegiate Honor Society, Texas Iota Chapter. April 1, 2015

2014

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Honors College Professor of the Year, Texas State University. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sam Shepard: The Writer’s Road, Texas Association of Museums. 2014
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Inclination of the Free Radical, Glimmer Train Fiction Open. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Inclination of the Free Radical, Glimmer Train Fiction Open. 2014

2013

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. May 2013

2012

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Cooter Holland’s Trip to Boomland, Narrative Magazine “Perfect Titles” challenge. 2012
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. December 2012

2011

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Common Experience Award, Texas State University. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: PAWS Preview Den Namesake, Texas State University. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: PAWS Preview Den Namesake, Texas State University. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Texas State Quality Team Award for Common Experience 2010-2011: “Sustainability,”, Texas State University. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: “What’s In Your Pocket?” challenge, Narrative Magazine. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: “Flash Fiction Challenge.”, Narrative Magazine. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sensory Sentence Challenge, Narrative Magazine. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Hundred-Character Story Challenge, Narrative Magazine. 2011
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Collegiate Honor Society, Texas Iota Chapter. April 1, 2011

2009

  • Award / Honor Nominee: Goodbread Faculty Advisor Award, Texas State University Honors Program. 2009
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers conference. 2009
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. December 2009
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. May 2009

2008

  • Award / Honor Nominee: most humorous presentation award, Western Literature Association national conference in Boulder, CO. 2008
  • Award / Honor Nominee: Spectator Sports, finalist in Narrative Magazine First-Person Story Contest. 2008
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. December 2008
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. May 2008

2007

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Road to Somewhere Else. 2007
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Graduating Student Recognition of Campus Support Program at Texas State. December 2007

2005

  • Award / Honor Recipient: William Faulkner-William Wisdom writing competition finalist. 2005

2004

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. 2004 - 2005

2002

  • Award / Honor Nominee: runner-up for Frederick Manfred Award. 2002
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Texas State Graduate Excellence Award. 2002

1997

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Western Region Honors Council’s fiction award. 1997