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This year's winners of the Literary committee prizes are:
First Prize: Dee Shapiro, "[Frozen Pond]"
Second Prize: Constance Brock, "[Darkening city street]"
Third Prize: Chetra E. Kotzas, "[Sunset, ripe, rests red]" |
This year's winner of the guest
judge prizes are:
First Prize: Dee Shapiro, "[frozen pond]"
Second Prize: Dee Shapiro, "[waning gibbous moon]"
Third Prize: Dee Shapiro, "[dusk]" |
This year's guest judge is poet Sarah Manguso, author of two poetry collections: SISTE VIATOR (Four Way Books, 2006) and THE CAPTAIN LANDS IN PARADISE (Alice James Books, 2002), which was named a VILLAGE VOICE Book of the Year.
She is also the author of two forthcoming books: a story collection, HARD TO ADMIT AND HARDER TO ESCAPE (McSweeney's Books), which will be included in McSweeney's One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box, and a memoir, THE TWO KINDS OF DECAY (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
Manguso earned degrees from Harvard and the University of Iowa, and was an Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton. She has been awarded residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, and her writing has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in three volumes of the Best American Poetry series.
Next year she will be the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. |
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