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Editors' Award


2011 Editors' Awards Winners and Finalists

  • Fiction Prize: Renato Escudero
    • "Barrio de mi Corazón"
  • Fiction Finalist: Kyle Michael Sullivan
    • "Desert Land"
  • Nonfiction Prize: Christopher Dickens
    • "Resurrections"
  • Nonfiction Finalist: Tim Bascom
    • "Checkpoint
  • Poetry Prize: Laura Read
    • "The Goose Girl"
    • "A Woman Was Raped Here"
    • "For the Bible Tells Me So"
  • Poetry Finalist: Timothy Geiger
    • "Animal Soul"
    • "Babicka"
    • "Spells and Prayers

2010 Editors' Awards Winners and Finalists

  • Fiction Prize: Gregg Cusick
    • “Clay Pigeons”
  • Fiction Finalist: Belea T. Keeney
    • “Out of Joint”
  • Nonfiction Prize: Barrie Jean Borich
    • “American Doll”
  • Nonfiction Finalist: Ron Tanner
    • “Doodler”
  • Poetry Prize: Michael White
    • “View of Delft”

2009 Editors' Awards Winners and Finalists

  • Fiction Prize: Fred Setterberg
    • "Catechism"
  • Fiction Finalist: Steven Gehrke
    • "The Terraformation of Mars"
  • Poetry Prize: Emily Van Kley
    • "Before Ghosts"
    • "Last of the Month"
    • "Vital Signs"
  • Poetry Finalist: Susan Rich
    • "Facing 50 with a Line by Robert Hayden"
    • "For My Student, Who Would Prefer to Remain Anonymous"

2008 Editors' Awards Winners

  • Fiction Prize: Julie Lekstrom Himes
    • "Packing Boxes"
  • Nonfiction Prize: Farnoosh Moshiri
    • "Walking on Thorns"
  • Poetry Prize: Maya Jewell Zeller
    • "Astoria"
    • "Mascara"

2007 Editors' Awards Winners

  • Grace Danborn
    • I Catch a Colander at a Menses Celebration
    • The Social Worker Books a Flight Home
    • Learning Borealis
    • What is Normal
    • Break Up
  • Joseph Levens
    • Critical Cartography
  • Kate Myers Hanson
    • There's a Child Living in This House

2006 Editors' Awards Winners

  • Dilruba Ahmed
    • Fever
    • Mojlishpur
    • Clear Water
  • CB Anderson
    • River Talk
  • Lee Reilly
    • Better Homes & Losses
Fred Setterberg
Fred Setterberg
Deborah Thompson
Deborah Thompson

Deborah Thompson, a Florida native, now lives in the foothills of Colorado, where she is an Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University. She has published numerous essays in literary criticism and creative nonfiction in venues ranging from African American Review to The BARk magazine to Calyx to Fourth Genre, and is the winner in the nonfiction category of the 2008 Missouri Review Editor’s Prize.

Christine Gelineau
Christine Gelineau

Christine Gelineau's essays, poems, and reviews have appeared widely. Her latest book, Appetite for the Devine will be published by Ashland Poetry Press in April, 2010. Gelineau is the Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University and she also teaches in the low-residency MA/MFA at Wilkes University.

Emily Van Kley
Emily van Kley

Emily Van Kley was raised in Upper Michigan, but now makes her home in Olympia, Washington, where she works at a collective food coop, gardens the vacant lot next to her apartment, writes, and gripes about the rain. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers in Spokane and this year her poems have received honorable mention for the Joy Harjo and Oberon poetry prizes. Her fiction has appeared in The Republic of Letters and Faultline.

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