Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Tyehimba Jess	Poetry	2006
Jenny Johnson	Poetry	2015
Adam Johnson	Fiction	2009
Denis Johnson	Fiction	1986
R.S. Jones	Fiction	1992
A. Van Jordan	Poetry	2004
Dan Josefson	Fiction	2015
Rajiv Joseph	Drama	2009
Hansol Jung	Drama	2018
Cynthia Kadohata	Fiction	1991
Agymah Kamau	Fiction	2003
Ilya Kaminsky	Poetry	2005
Joan Kane	Poetry	2009
Seth Kantner	Fiction	2005
Mary Karr	Poetry	1989
Douglas Kearney	Poetry	2008
John Keene	Fiction, Poetry	2005
Brigit Pegeen Kelly	Poetry	1996
Randall Kenan	Fiction, Nonfiction	1994
Brad Kessler	Fiction	2007
Laleh Khadivi	Fiction	2008
Alice Sola Kim	Fiction	2016
James Kimbrell	Poetry	1998
Lily King	Fiction	2000
Brian Kiteley	Fiction	1996
Matthew Klam	Fiction	2001
Kevin Kling	Drama	1993
Wayne Koestenbaum	Nonfiction, Poetry	1994
Tony Kushner	Drama	1990
Natalie Kusz	Nonfiction	1989
Suji Kwock Kim	Poetry	2006
Catherine Lacey	Fiction	2016
Mary LaChapelle	Fiction	1988
Rattawut Lapcharoensap	Fiction	2010
Rickey Laurentiis	Poetry	2018

Selected Memoirists

Andrew X. Pham 2000

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

“The roads are dangerous,” she says. “The country is not safe.”

“People are very poor,” Granduncle adds, in agreement. “This isn’...

Judy Blunt 2001

Breaking Clean: A Memoir

Spring of 1954, my mother stood at the threshold of Henry Picotte’s abandoned chicken house, a bouquet of hens dangling in either hand, and eyed the enormous prairie rattler...

Lucy Grealy 1995

Autobiography of a Face: A Memoir

I stood there perfectly still, just as I had sat for countless medical photographs: full face, turn to the left, the right, now a three-quarter shot to the left. I took a...

Chris Offutt 1996

Kentucky Straight: Stories

The tow truck lurched a few yards, dappling everyone with mud. Bobby’s ruined knee spurted a red arc. Then another. And another. The men watched, bewildered and afraid. They...

Danzy Senna 2002

Caucasia: A Novel

Cole claimed to remember the good times between my parents. But I didn’t. Seemed like they were always breaking up to make up. After their big fights, they usually got back...