A warm round of applause for our award-winning authors! Congratulations!
Author Award
Whiting Award: 2016 Winner in Poetry
Cannibal
by Safiya Sinclair
“She renders the geography of Jamaica as something that takes over her body, and yet concludes with the most personal of possessions…”—Wellfleet
Book Awards
2016 Spur Award: Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction
This Strange Wilderness
by Nancy Plain
“…an absorbing, particularly researched narrative.”—Booklist
2016 Colonial Dames of America Book Award
She Can Bring Us Home
by Diane Kiesel
“Kiesel’s reporting on and writing about Boulding will cause you to reflect about where this country has been and the directions in which it is going . . . an engaging and enjoyable read.”—New York Law Journal
2016 SABR Baseball Research Award
The Colonel and Hug
by Steve Steinberg
“A top-notch sports biography.”—Kirkus Reviews
So How Long Have You Been Native?
by Alexis C. Bunten
“From cover to cover, the book reads as one large captivating story comprised of many snapshots of the author’s life.”—CHOICE
2015 Association for Mormon Letters: Creative Nonfiction
My Wife Wants You to Know I’m Happily Married
by Joey Franklin
“He handles each subject deftly and openly, showing how we’re not alone in our foibles, our freakishness . . . An essential addition to any public or university library, especially those with creative writing programs.”—Library Journal
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