Swink Literary Awards
Winners and Finalists


Fiction Winner
Carol Test, “Conversational English”

Poetry Winner
Mark Stevick, “Burnt Bus”

Fiction Finalists
Andrew Foster Altschul, “You Are Not Here”
Greg Ames, “The Snowing Loneliness of Buffalo”
Leah Griesmann, “The Unigirl”
Mike Harvkey, “The Practice Route”
Cristina Henriquez, “Standard Love, Automatic Love”
Abby Mims, “The Art of the Deal”
Mary Otis, “Unstruck”

Poetry Finalists
Kirsten L. Anderson, “Some Snapshots” and “One Lie”
Leslie Anne Mcilroy, “Full Price”
Jean Monahan, “Mauled Illusionist Goes Home”
Alison Stine, “In the Limbo of Lost Toys,” “White Shirt Poem” and “Catalogue”
Wm. Vandoren Wheeler, “My Brother”

Antonya Nelson, the judge in fiction, is the author of four short story collections, including Female Trouble (Scribner’s 2002), and three novels (Talking in Bed, Nobody’s Girl, and Living to Tell). Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harpers, Redbook, and many other magazines, as well as in anthologies such as Prize Stories, the O. Henry Awards, and Best American Short Stories. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books of 1992, 1996, 1998, and 2000, and she recently was named by The New Yorker as one of the “twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium.” She is the recipient of the NEA Grant and a 200-2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, and lives in Telluride, Colorado, and Las Cruces, New Mexico. She teaches creative writing in the Warren Wilson MFA Program, as well as at New Mexico State University.

Tony Hoagland, the judge in poetry, is the author of three collections of poetry: What Narcissism Means to Me (Graywolf Press, 2003); Donkey Gospel (1998), which received the James Laughlin Award; and Sweet Ruin (1992), winner of the Brittingham Prize and the Zacharis Award from Emerson College. His other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and critical writings have appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, Agni, Threepenny Review, Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and the 1991 Pushcart Prize anthology. He currently teaches at the University of Houston.

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