The List of AWP Award Winners is an annual competition for the publication of new book-length works.

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The Donald Hall

Donald Hall

Donald Hall is an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2006.-Personal life:...

 Prize for Poetry is an award of $5,000 and publication.
The Grace Paley

Grace Paley

Grace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...

 Prize for Short Fiction is an award of $5,000 and publication. Winners in the novel and creative nonfiction categories receive a $2,000 cash honorarium and publication.
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Year	Category	Judge	Winner	Work
2011	Poetry	Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux is an American poet.-Biography:Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon...	Laura Read	Instructions for My Mother's Funeral, University of Pittsburgh Press
2011	Short Fiction	Jhumpa Lahiri Jhumpa Lahiri Jhumpa Lahiri is a Bengali American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies , won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake , was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna, which she says are both...	Corinna Vallianatos	My Escapee, University of Massachusetts Press
2011	Novel	Don Lee	Kirstin Scott	Motherlunge, New Issues Press
2011	Nonfiction	Susan Orlean Susan Orlean Susan Orlean is an American journalist. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside....	Marcia Aldrich	Companion to an Untold Story, University of Georgia Press
2010	Poetry	Alberto Ríos Alberto Ríos Alberto Álvaro Ríos is an American author of nine books and chapbooks of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. He is a Regents' professor of English at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona...	Quan Barry Quan Barry -Life:She was raised on Boston's north shore.She graduated from the University of Michigan, with an MFA, and was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and the Diane Middlebrook poetry fellow at the University of Wisconsin...	Water Puppets, University of Pittsburgh Press
2010	Short Fiction	Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent.-Biography:Born and raised in Coventry, Davies studied physics at Manchester University then English at Cambridge University....	Douglas Light Douglas Light Douglas Light is an award winning American novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer. His story collection, Girls in Trouble, won the 2010 AWP Grace Paley Prize for short fiction. It will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2011. His second novel, Where Night Stops,...	Girls in Trouble, University of Massachusetts Press
2010	Novel	Francine Prose Francine Prose Francine Prose is an American writer. Since March 2007 she has been the president of PEN American Center. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968 and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991....	Mandy Keifetz	Flea Circus: A Brief Bestiary of Grief, New Issues Press
2010	Nonfiction	Luis Alberto Urrea Luís Alberto Urrea Luís Alberto Urrea is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist.-Life:Urrea is the son of a Mexican father and an American mother...	Danielle Cadena Deulen	The Riots, University of Georgia Press
2009	Poetry	Jean Valentine Jean Valentine Jean Valentine is an American poet, and currently the New York State Poet . Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry....	Bradley Paul Bradley Paul Bradley Ormond Paul is an American poet.He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop....	The Animals All Are Gathering
2009	Short Fiction	Allan Gurganus Allan Gurganus Allan Gurganus is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina. His writing has been compared to the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, who also were identified with the American South.-Biography: Gurganus was...	Christine Sneed Christine Sneed Christine M. Sneed is an American short story writer, and visiting professor at DePaul University.Her book, Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry, won the 2009 AWP Grace Paley Prize.-Life:...	Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry
2009	Novel	Jim Shepard Jim Shepard Jim Shepard is an American author and professor of creative writing and film at Williams College.-Biography:Shepard was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He received a B.A. at Trinity College in 1978, his MFA from Brown University in 1980. He currently teaches creative writing and film at Williams...	Kevin Fenton	Merit Badges
2009	Nonfiction	Lee Gutkind Lee Gutkind Lee Gutkind is an American writer.Gurkind is the founder of the literary magazine Creative Nonfiction and the author or editor of over a dozen books. He started the first ever MFA program in creative nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh...	David Vann David Vann (writer) David Vann is an assistant professor of English at University of San Francisco. He teaches creative nonfiction and fiction. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and is the author of the memoir A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea...	Last Day on Earth
2008	Poetry	Lynn Emanuel Lynn Emanuel Lynn Collins Emanuel is an American poet. Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook ....	Beth Bachmann Beth Bachmann Beth Bachmann is an American poet.Bachmann is Assistant Professor of creative writing at Vanderbilt University. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Antioch Review, AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Tin House, and Ploughshares.They are included in the textbook The...	Temper
2008	Short Fiction	Jewell Parker Rhodes Jewell Parker Rhodes Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American novelist.Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Rhodes is the Artistic Director for Global Engagement and the Piper Endowed Chair of...	Ramola D	Temporary Lives & Other Stories
2008	Novel	Joanna Scott Joanna Scott Joanna Scott is an American author and Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English at the University of Rochester.Scott has received critical acclaim for her novels...	Goldie Goldbloom	Toad's Museum of Freaks and Wonders
2008	Nonfiction	Kathleen Norris Kathleen Norris Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909...	Sonja Livingston	Ghostbread
2007	Poetry	Bob Hicok Bob Hicok -Life:Hicok is an associate professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business...	Sharon Dolin	Burn and Dodge
2007	Short Fiction	Noy Holland Noy Holland Noy Holland is an American writer and National Book Award nominee. She is married to the writer Sam Michel.-Literature-related:...	David Vann David Vann David Johnson Vann was mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.Vann was born in Randolph County, Alabama. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1950, and from the University's law school in 1951. He served as clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, and was present in the courtroom...	Legend of a Suicide
2007	Novel	Robert Eversz	Scott Blackwood	We Agreed to Meet Just Here
2007	Nonfiction	Michael Martone Michael A. Martone Michael A. Martone is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, and is the author of several books. His 2005 book Michael Martone, originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications, is an investigation of form and autobiography...	Sharon White	Vanished Gardens
2006	Poetry	Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes is a prize-winning American poet. His recent poetry collection Lighthead won the National Book Award for Poetry...	Angela Ball	Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds
2006	Short Fiction	Nancy Reisman Nancy Reisman Nancy Reisman is an American author. She teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University.-Education:Reisman received her M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.-Awards:...	Karen Brown	Pins and Needles
2006	Novel	Nicholas Delbanco Nicholas Delbanco -Life:He was educated at Harvard University, B.A. 1963; Columbia University, M.A. 1966. He taught at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1966–84, and at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1984-85...	Geoff Rips	The Truth
2006	Nonfiction	Kyoko Mori	Mort Zachter	Dough: A Memoir
2005	Poetry	Ha Jin Ha Jin Jīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin . Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.-Early life:...	John Hodgen	Grace
2005	Short Fiction	Ana Menendez Ana Menéndez -Early life:Menéndez was born to Cuban exile parents who fled to Los Angeles, California in 1964. Menéndez's parents expected to return to Cuba at any time and prepared their children for this eventuality. As a result, Menéndez spoke only Spanish until she enrolled in kindergarten. The family...	Nona Caspers	Heavier Than Air
2005	Novel	Rikki Ducornet Rikki Ducornet Rikki Ducornet is an American postmodernist, writer, poet, and artist.-Biography:...	John Robinson	Dreaming America
2005	Nonfiction	Robin Hemley Robin Hemley Robin Hemley, born May 28, 1958 in New York City, is a Jewish American nonfiction and fiction writer, author of eight books, most recently, DO-OVER! In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments...	J.D. Scrimgeour	Themes for English B
2004	Poetry	Alicia Ostriker Alicia Ostriker Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.Alicia is married to the noted astronomer Jeremiah Ostriker who taught at Princeton University...	Christopher Bursk Christopher Bursk Christopher Bursk is an American poet, professor, and activist. He is author of nine poetry collections, most recently, The First Inhabitants of Arcadia published by the , and praised by The New York Times: Bursk writes with verve and insight about child rearing, aging parents, sexuality, his...	The Improbable Swervings of Atoms
2004	Short Fiction	Douglas Bauer	No Winner
2004	Novel	Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken is an American author.McCracken, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Newton North High School in Newton, Massachusetts, earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Boston University, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa, and...	M. Evelina Galang	One Tribe
2004	Nonfiction	Suzannah Lessard Suzannah Lessard Suzannah Lessard is an American writer of literary non-fiction. She has written memoir, reportorial pieces, essays and opinion.-Life:She has taught at Columbia School of the Arts, Wesleyan University, The New School, George Mason University, George Washington University, and Goucher College MFA...	David Carkeet	Campus Sexpot
2003	Poetry	Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn Stephen Dunn is an American poet. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dunn completed his B.A. in English at...	Barbara Hamby Barbara Hamby -Life:She was born in New Orleans and raised in Hawaii. Her poems have been printed in numerous publications and her first book of poetry, Delirium , received literary recognition...	Babel
2003	Short Fiction	Joan Silber Joan Silber Joan Silber is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of Household Words , which won a PEN/Hemingway Award, and Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories , which was a finalist for both the 2004 National Book Award and the Story Prize...	Doreen Baingana Doreen Baingana Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer. Her book, Tropical Fish won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Africa, and an AWP Short Fiction Award....	Tropical Fish
2003	Novel		No Winner
2003	Nonfiction	Beverly Lowry	Karen Salyer McElmurray	Mother of the Disappeared: An Appalachian Birth Mother's Journey
2002	Poetry	Cornelius Eady Cornelius Eady Cornelius Eady is an American poet focusing largely on matters of race and society, particularly the trials of the African-American race in the United States. His poetry often centers around jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class...	Sandra Kohler	The Ceremonies of Longing
2002	Short Fiction	Frederick Busch Frederick Busch Frederick Busch was an American writer. Busch was a master of the short story and one of America’s most prolific writers of fiction long and short....	Joan Connor	History Lessons
2002	Novel		No Winner
2002	Nonfiction	Sue William Silverman	Mark Anderson	Jesus Sound Explosion
2001	Poetry	Marilyn Chin Marilyn Chin Marilyn Chin is an American poet who grew up in Portland, Oregon, after her family immigrated from Hong Kong. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award,...	Gray Jacobik	Brave Disguises
2001	Short Fiction	Frederick Barthelme Frederick Barthelme Fredrick Barthelme is an American novelist and short story author, well known as one of the seminal writers of minimalist fiction...	Christie Hodgen	A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw
2001	Novel		No Winner
2001	Nonfiction	Barry Sanders Barry Sanders Barry Sanders is a former American football running back who spent all of his professional career with the Detroit Lions in the NFL. Sanders left the game just short of the all-time rushing record...	Jill Christman	Darkroom: An Autobiography
2000	Poetry	Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted to make himself emperor...	Joanie V. Mackowski	The Zoo
2000	Short Fiction	Jill McCorkle Jill McCorkle Jill Collins McCorkle is an American short story writer, and novelist.She graduated from University of North Carolina, in 1980, where she studied with Max Steele, Lee Smith, and Louis D...	Michelle Richmond Michelle Richmond Michelle Richmond is an American novelist and essayist.Richmond's first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 2000 and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001. Her first novel, Dream of the Blue...	The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress
2000	Novel		Alexander Parsons	Leaving Disneyland
2000	Nonfiction	Sven Birkerts Sven Birkerts Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic of Latvian ancestry. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies, which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."Birkerts was born in Pontiac,...	Brian Lennon	City: An Essay
1999	Poetry	Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux Dorianne Laux is an American poet.-Biography:Laux worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. Laux taught at the University of Oregon...	Connie Voisine	Cathedral of the North
1999	Short Fiction	Larry Woiwode Larry Woiwode Larry Alfred Woiwode is an American writer who lives in North Dakota, where he has been the state's Poet Laureate since 1995. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Gentleman's Quarterly, The Partisan Review and The Paris Review...	C.J. Hribal	The Clouds in Memphis
1999	Novel	Thomas Dunn Thomas Dunn Thomas Dunn was Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada from 1805 to 1807.He was born in Durham, England and came to the town of Quebec shortly after its surrender in 1760. With his partner John Gray, he obtained the trading lease to the king's posts, which gave them a monopoly in the fur trade and...	Aaron Roy Even	Bloodroot
1999	Nonfiction	Judith Kitchen	Lia Purpura Lia Purpura Lia Purpura is an American poet, writer and educator. She is the author of three collections of poems , two collections of essays and one collection of translations...	Increase
1998	Poetry	Marvin Bell Marvin Bell Marvin Bell is an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the State of Iowa.Bell was born in New York City and raised in Center Moriches, Long Island...	Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes Edward Mayes is a poet.His books of poetry include First Language, To Remain, Magnetism, Works and Days, Speed of Life, and Bodysong. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, TriQuarterly,...	Works & Days
1998	Short Fiction	Diane Glancy Diane Glancy Diane Glancy was born in 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a Cherokee poet, author and playwright. Glancy was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri in 1964, then later continued her education at the University of Central Oklahoma, earning her a Masters degree in English...	Bonnie Jo Campbell Bonnie Jo Campbell Bonnie Jo Campbell is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Biography:Campbell attended Comstock High School , and received an B.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1984. From Western Michigan University, she received an MA in mathematics in 1995 and an MFA in creative...	Women & Other Animals
1998	Novel	St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...	No winner
1998	Nonfiction	Kathleen Norris Kathleen Norris Kathleen Thompson Norris was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909...	Michael Martone Michael A. Martone Michael A. Martone is a professor at the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, and is the author of several books. His 2005 book Michael Martone, originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications, is an investigation of form and autobiography...	The Flatness & Other Landscapes
1997	Poetry	Arthur Vogelsang	Josie Rawson	Quarry
1997	Short Fiction	Robert Boswell Robert Boswell -Life:Robert Boswell is the author of eleven books. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, Best Stories from the South, Esquire, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Colorado Review.He has been faculty at the Bread Loaf...	Toni Graham	The Daiquiri Girls
1997	Novel	St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...	No winner
1997	Nonfiction	James Galvin James Galvin (poet) James Galvin is an American poet. He has published six collections of poetry, most recently As Is , "X: Poems," and Resurrection Update, Collected Poems, 1975-1997 which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Poet’s Prize...	Peter Chilson	Riding the Demon Road
1996	Poetry	Jorie Graham Jorie Graham Jorie Graham is an American poet. The U.S. Poetry Foundation suggests "She is perhaps the most celebrated poet of the American post-war generation". She replaced poet Seamus Heaney as Boylston Professor at Harvard, becoming the first woman to be appointed to this position...	Michele Glazer	It Is Hard to Look At What We Came to Think
1996	Short Fiction	George Cuomo	Charlotte Bacon	A Private State
1996	Nonfiction	Lucy Grealy Lucy Grealy Lucinda Margaret Grealy was an American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement...	Marilyn Moriarty	Moses Unchained
1995	Poetry	Olga Broumas Olga Broumas Olga Broumas , is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.-Biography:Born and raised in Greece, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania; she earned her Bachelor's degree in architecture...	Rick Noguchi	The Ocean Inside Kenji Takezo
1995	Short Fiction	Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.-Biography:...	David Jauss	Black Maps
1995	Novel	Ron Carlson Ron Carlson -Life:Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City. He received a masters degree in English from the University of Utah. He then taught at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he began his first novel....	Steven Bloom	No New Jokes
1995	Nonfiction	Adam Hochschild Adam Hochschild Adam Hochschild is an American author and journalist.-Biography:Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964...	Sue William Silverman	Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You
1994	Poetry	William Matthews William Matthews (poet) William Matthews was an American poet and essayist.-Life:Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Matthews earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a master's from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.In addition to serving as a Writer-in-Residence at Boston's Emerson College, Matthews...	Ruth Schwartz	Accordion Breathing and Dancing
1994	Short Fiction	Elizabeth Tallent Elizabeth Tallent Elizabeth Tallent is an American fiction writer.-Life:Tallent's short stories have been published in literary magazines and journals such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's Magazine, The Threepenny Review, and North American Review, and her stories have been reprinted in the O...	A. Manette Ansay A. Manette Ansay A. Manette Ansay is an American author, born in Lapeer, Michigan.-Fiction:*Vinegar Hill *Read This and Tell Me What It Says *Sister *River Angel *Midnight Champagne *Blue Water...	Read This and Tell Me What It Says
1994	Novel	Elizabeth Cox	Tracy Daugherty Tracy Daugherty Tracy Daugherty is an American author. His is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. He has previously held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts....	What Falls Away
1994	Nonfiction	Patricia Hampl Patricia Hampl Patricia Hampl is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis and is one of the founding members of the Loft Literary Center.-Life:Hampl was...	William Van Wert	Memory Links
1993	Poetry	Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché Carolyn Forché is an American poet, editor, translator, and human rights advocate.-Life:Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, on April 28, 1950, to Michael Joseph and Louise Nada Blackford Sidlosky. Forché earned a B.A...	Reginald Shepherd Reginald Shepherd Reginald Shepherd was an American poet, born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. He died of cancer in Penascola, Florida, in 2008.-Biography:...	Some Are Drowning
1993	Short Fiction	Grace Paley Grace Paley Grace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...	E. Bumas	Significance
1993	Novel	Josephine Humphreys Josephine Humphreys Josephine Humphreys is an American novelist.A native of Charleston, South Carolina, which is also the setting of her novels Dreams of Sleep, Rich in Love and The Fireman's Fair, Humphreys was educated at Ashley Hall , studied creative writing with Reynolds Price at Duke University , and went on to...	Mary Gardner	Boat People
1993	Nonfiction	Phillip Lopate Phillip Lopate Doctor Phillip Lopate is an American film critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet, and teacher. He is the younger brother of radio host Leonard Lopate.-Early life and education:...	Michael Stephens Michael Stephens Michael James Stephens in Auckland. He was a New Zealand cricketer who played for the Auckland Aces and the Northern Districts Knights in the 1990s and he also played for Counties-Manukau in the Hawke Cup. Nowdadys he works for St Joseph's School in Pukekohe.-References:...	Green Dreams: Under the Influence of the Irish
1992	Poetry	Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...	Suzanne Gardinier Suzanne Gardinier -Life:Suzanne Gardinier grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts. She completed her B.A. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981, and her MFA at Columbia University, in 1986. She is the author of a long poem called The New World...	The New World
1992	Short Fiction	Bret Lott Bret Lott Bret Lott is an American author of novels and short stories. Lott was born in Los Angeles, California, and went to school in the Northeastern United States. He taught creative writing at the College of Charleston for eighteen years, where he was also writer-in-residence.He was editor of the...	Daniel Lyons Daniel Lyons Daniel Lyons is an American writer. He was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and is now a writer at Newsweek.-Career:He has written a book of short stories, The Last Good Man , a novel, Dog Days , and a fictional biography, Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody...	The First Snow
1992	Novel	Alison Lurie Alison Lurie Alison Lurie is an American novelist and academic. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she has also written numerous non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.-Personal...	William Cobb William Cobb This article is about the engineer. For other persons by this name, see William Cobb William L. "Bill" Cobb , was an American designer and engineer of roller coasters, as the founder and head of William Cobb & Associates...	The Fire Eaters
1992	Nonfiction	Stanley Lindberg	Fred Setterberg	Unpaved Nations: Travels Through America's Literary Landscapes
1991	Poetry	Ron Wallace	Betsy Sholl Betsy Sholl Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl is an American poet and a former poet laureate of Maine. She was appointed by Governor John Baldacci to the position in 2006 and held it until 2011. She is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Rough Cradle...	The Red Line
1991	Short Fiction	Antonya Nelson Antonya Nelson Antonya Nelson is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.-Life and education:Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961 in Wichita, Kansas....	Jack Driscoll Jack Driscoll Jack Driscoll is a fictional character in the King Kong franchise. In the original 1933 film he was the first mate of the ship The Venture, while in its 2005 remake he was a playwright . He was played by Bruce Cabot in the original and by Adrien Brody in the remake...	Wanting Only to be Heard
1991	Novel	Richard Bausch Richard Bausch Richard Bausch is an American novelist and short story writer, and Moss Chair of Excellence in English at the University of Memphis. He has written eleven novels, eight short story collections, and one volume of poetry and prose....	No winner
1991	Nonfiction	Scott Russell Sanders	Phyllis Barber	How I Got Cultured
1990	Poetry	Ellen Bryant Voigt Ellen Bryant Voigt Ellen Bryant Voigt is an American poet. She has published six collections of poetry and a collection of craft essays. Her poetry collection Shadow of Heaven was a finalist for the National Book Award and Kyrie was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poetry has been...	Kathleen Peirce Kathleen Peirce Kathleen Peirce is an American poet. -Life:She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, for the Texas State University MFA...	A Living Room
1990	Short Fiction	Ron Hansen Ron Hansen (novelist) Ron Hansen is an American novelist, essayist, and professor.-Biography:Hansen was born in Omaha, Nebraska, attended a Jesuit high school, Creighton Preparatory School and earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Creighton University in Omaha in 1970. Following military service, he earned an M.F.A...	Karen Brennan	Wild Desire
1990	Novel	Bob Shacochis Bob Shacochis Bob Shacochis is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary journalist. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.-Writing career:...	Lamar Herrin	The Lies Boys Tell
1990	Nonfiction	Bob Atwan	Philip Garrison	Augury
1989	Poetry	Alice Fulton Alice Fulton Alice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.- Biography :Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school...	Belle Waring	Refuge
1989	Short Fiction	Charles Baxter	Susan Hubbard Susan Hubbard Susan Hubbard is an American fiction writer and professor at the University of Central Florida. She has written seven books of fiction, and is a winner of the Associated Writing Program Prize for Short Fiction and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best prose book of the year by an American...	Walking on Ice
1988	Poetry	Gerald Stern Gerald Stern Gerald Stern is an American poet. His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and of a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review. He has subsequently been given many prestigious awards for his...	Christopher Davis Christopher Davis Christopher Davis , the Bahamian goalkeeper plays for London City in the Canadian Soccer League.-International career:...	The Tyrant of the Past
1988	Short Fiction	David Huddle David Huddle David Ross Huddle is an American writer and professor. His most recent book is Glory River: Poems...	Roland Sodowsky	Things We Lose
1988	Novel	Toby Olson Toby Olson -Life:Through high school and his four years in the Navy as a surgical technician, he lived in California, Arizona, and Texas.He graduated from Occidental College and Long Island University....	Duff Brenna	Mamie Beaver
1988	Nonfiction	Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson Gloria Emerson was an American author, journalist and New York Times war correspondent, who won a National Book Award for her book about the Vietnam War, Winners and Losers....	Richard Terrill	Saturday Night in Baoding
1987	Poetry	Linda Pastan Linda Pastan Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991–1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the...	Robin Behn Robin Behn Robin Behn is an American poet, and professor at University of Alabama, and Vermont College of Fine Arts.She grew up in Harrington, Illinois.She graduated from Oberlin College, the University of Missouri, and University of Iowa....	Paper Bird
1987	Short Fiction	François Camoin François Camoin François André Camoin is an American short story writer.-Life:He came to the United States in 1952.He graduated from University of Massachusetts with a Ph.D. in 1967.He teaches at University of Utah...	Anne Finger	Basic Skills
1987	Novel	John Williams John Williams John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...	No winner
1987	Nonfiction	David McKain	Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural History of the Senses. Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science...	Spellbound: Growing Up in God's Country
1986	Poetry	James Whitehead James Whitehead (poet) James Tillotson Whitehead was an American poet and novelist. He published four books of poetry and one critically acclaimed novel, Joiner.-Biography:...  & Dara Wier Dara Wier Dara Wier is an American poet and the author of eleven books of poetry, including most recently SELECTED POEMS from Wave Books. Awards include the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the American Poetry Review, Pushcart Prize, San Francisco Poetry Center Prize. Her work is in Best American Poetry...	Judith Hemschemeyer	The Ride Home
1986	Short Fiction	Robley Wilson, Jr., Irene Skolnick	Jesse Lee Kercheval Jesse Lee Kercheval Jesse Lee Kercheval is an American academic and writer. She is a writing teacher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has authored several books of various genres, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater....	The Dogeater: Stories
1986	Novel	George Cuomo	Kenn Robbins	Buttermilk Bottoms
1986	Nonfiction	Irene Skolnick, Robley Wilson, Jr.	No winner
1985	Poetry	John Frederick Nims John Frederick Nims John Frederick Nims was an American poet and academic.-Life:He graduated from DePaul University, University of Notre Dame with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1945.He published reviews of the works by Robert Lowell and W. S. Merwin...	No winner
1985	Short Fiction	Ann Beattie Ann Beattie Ann Beattie is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger,...	No winner
1985	Novel	Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...	Mack Faith	The Warrior's Gift
1985	Nonfiction	Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Susan Fromberg Schaeffer was a noted novelist and poet who was a Professor of English at Brooklyn College for over thirty years...	Scott R. Sanders	The Paradise of Bombs
1984	Poetry	James Tate James Tate (writer) James Tate is an American poet whose work has earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters...	Sandra Alcosser Sandra Alcosser Sandra Alcosser is an American poet. She was appointed the first state poet laureate of Montana from 2005-2007 and was superseded by Greg Pape.-Life:...	A Fish to Feed All Hunger
1984	Short Fiction	Paul Bowles Paul Bowles Paul Frederic Bowles was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.Following a cultured middle-class upbringing in New York City, during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education at the University of Virginia before making various trips to Paris...	Rod Kessier	Off in Zimbabwe
1984	Novel	George Garrett George Garrett (poet) George Palmer Garrett. was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun...	William Holinger	The Fence-Walker
1984	Nonfiction	Annie Dillard Annie Dillard Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for General...	Will Baker	Mountain Blood
1983	Poetry	Josephine Jacobsen	Lisa Ress	Flight Patterns
1983	Short Fiction	Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme Donald Barthelme was an American author known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston , co-founder of Fiction Donald...	Charles Baxter	Harmony of the World
1983	Novel	Theodore Solotaroff	Doug Finn	Heart of a Family
1982	Poetry	W.D. Snodgrass	Alice Fulton Alice Fulton Alice Fulton is an American author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.- Biography :Fulton was born and raised in Troy, New York, the youngest of three daughters. Her father was the proprietor of the historic Phoenix Hotel, and her mother was a visiting nurse. She began writing poetry in high school...	Dance Script With Electric Ballerina
1982	Short Fiction	Raymond Carver Raymond Carver Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. Carver is considered a major American writer of the late 20th century and also a major force in the revitalization of the short story in the 1980s....	Alvin Greenberg	Delta q
1982	Novel	Gail Godwin Gail Godwin Gail Kathleen Godwin is an American novelist and short story writer. She has published one non-fiction work, two collections of short stories, and eleven novels, three of which have been nominated for the National Book Award and five of which have made the New York Times Bestseller List.Godwin was...	John Solensten	Good Thunder
1981	Poetry	William Meredith William Morris Meredith, Jr. William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.-Early years:...	Paul Nelson Paul Nelson Paul Nelson may refer to:*Paul Nelson , rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone*Paul R. Nelson, 2006 Republican nominee for Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district*Paul Nelson...	Days Off
1981	Short Fiction	Stanley Elkin Stanley Elkin Stanley Lawrence Elkin was a Jewish American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.-Biography:...	François Camoin François Camoin François André Camoin is an American short story writer.-Life:He came to the United States in 1952.He graduated from University of Massachusetts with a Ph.D. in 1967.He teaches at University of Utah...	The End of the World is Los Angeles
1981	Novel	John Irving John Irving John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...	No winner
1980	Poetry	Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin is an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981-1982.-Early years:...	William Carpenter William Carpenter William Carpenter may refer to:*William Carpenter , water colours of India*William Carpenter , Australian politician*William Carpenter, writer, American author...	The Hours of Morning
1980	Short Fiction	Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...	Eugene Garber	Metaphysical Tales
1980	Novel	Hortense Calesher	Mary Elsie Robertson	After Freud
1979	Poetry	Donald Justice Donald Justice Donald Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing. In summing up Justice's career, David Orr has written, "In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his...	James Applewhite James Applewhite James Applewhite is an American poet, and Professor Emeritus in creative writing at Duke University.He graduated from Duke University with a B.A., M.A...	Following Gravity
1979	Short Fiction	Richard Yates Richard Yates (novelist) Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer, known for his exploration of mid-20th century life.-Life:...	Ian MacMillan	Light and Power
1978	Poetry	Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...	Jeanne Larsen Jeanne Larsen Jeanne Larsen is a poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. Much of her work shows the growing influence of Buddhist perspectives on U.S. literature. This includes not only the poetry and creative nonfiction, but also the novels in her Avalokiteśvara trilogy.-Biography:Larsen grew up on U.S. Army...	James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita
1978	Short Fiction	Wallace Stegner Wallace Stegner Wallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers"...	Rebecca Kavaler Rebecca Kavaler Rebecca Kavaler, short story writer and novelist, was Southern by birth. She resided in New York City for more than two decades. During that time, her short fiction won various awards, including two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships...	The Further Adventure of Brunhild
1977	Poetry	Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia...	Phyllis Janowitz	Rites of Strangers
1976	Poetry	James Wright James Wright (poet) James Arlington Wright was an American poet.Wright first emerged on the literary scene in 1956 with The Green Wall, a collection of formalist verse that was awarded the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Prize. But by the early 1960s, Wright, increasingly influenced by the Spanish language...	Robert Huff	The Ventriloquist
1975	Poetry	Richard Eberhart Richard Eberhart Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total...	David Walker David Walker -Musicians:* Dave Walker , British musician, member of the band Fleetwood Mac* David Walker , American opera singer* David Walker , American singer of Southern Gospel music...	Moving Out