Editors’ Awards for Emerging Writers
Winners and Finalists


Fiction Winner
Sarah Strickley, The Roads Are Like That


Poetry Winner
Carrie Fountain, Burn Lake (2)


Fiction Finalists
Stephen F. Anderson, She's Got No Reverse
Jeremiah Chamberlin, Missionaries
Ron Currie Jr., If Natalie Portman Were My Girlfriend, Life Would Be Like the Movies
Hannah Pittard, Hammer


Poetry Finalists
Chelsea Bolan, Umbrella
Sarah Fay, Waitress Stills Nos. 7 and 9
Richard Fox, Hometown and Garden
Bernadette Geyer, The Door
Patty Gordon, American Still Life
Julie Hanson, The Kindergarteners
Marilyn A. Johnson, Our Fear of Clowns
Jessica Piazza, Halloween in Academia
David Ruekberg, All My Life
Christopher Salerno, Girligig and Mothergig
Megan Shevenock, Final Season
Joe Wilkins, The Land to the North
Susan Settlemyre Williams, Learning Again to Call the Sun

Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of the story collection, The Point and a book of essays, Orphans. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and in numerous anthologies, including Best American Short Stories. His work has received a number of prizes including a James Michener Fellowship and the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. A graduate of Iowa Writers Workshop, he grew up in Seattle and currently lives in Portland.

Marianne Boruch's most recent poetry collection is Poems: New & Selected (Oberlin College Press). Her previous collections include View from the Gazebo, Descendant, Moss Burning, A Stick that Breaks and Breaks, and a book of essays, Poetry's Old Air. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The Antioch Review, The Georgia Review, and many other publications. She has received several grants, including two NEA fellowships in poetry. She teaches in the MFA Program at Purdue University, and has taught in Warren Wilson College's MFA Program and as an exchange professor at the University of Hamburg. She lives with her husband in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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