Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Hanna Pylväinen	Fiction	2012
Hugh Raffles	Nonfiction	2009
Keith Reddin	Drama	1992
Spencer Reece	Poetry	2005
Roger Reeves	Poetry	2015
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts	Nonfiction	2012
Mark Richard	Fiction	1990
Atsuro Riley	Poetry	2012
Harriet Ritvo	Nonfiction	1990
José Rivera	Drama	1992
Lewis Robinson	Fiction	2003
James Robison	Fiction	1985
Rick Rofihe	Fiction	1991
Carlo Rotella	Nonfiction	2007
Jess Row	Fiction	2003
Mary Ruefle	Poetry	1995
Sarah Ruhl	Drama	2003
Michael Ryan	Poetry	1987
Russ Rymer	Nonfiction	1995
Luc Sante	Nonfiction	1989
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh	Nonfiction	2010
James Schuyler	Poetry	1985
Salvatore Scibona	Fiction	2009
Danzy Senna	Fiction	2002
Anton Shammas	Fiction, Nonfiction	1991
Akhil Sharma	Fiction	2001
Lisa Shea	Fiction	1993
Julie Sheehan	Poetry	2008
Mona Simpson	Fiction	1986
Safiya Sinclair	Poetry	2016
Evan Smith	Drama	2002
Tracy K. Smith	Poetry	2005
Dalia Sofer	Fiction	2007
Jason Sommer	Poetry	2001
Elizabeth Spires	Poetry	1996

Selected Memoirists

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...

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...

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...

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...