Literature Award Recipients

2023

Laura Cresté (Don Kissel Award winner for nonfiction)

2022

Katherine Berry
Nayereh Doosti
Jennani Durai
Carolyn Mireault
David Weinstein:-nonfiction Don Kissel Award

2021

Bradley Babendir
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
Nicole Lipson: nonfiction Don Kissel Award
Vida James
Kurt Klopmeier
Chibuihe Obi Achimba
Julia Pike

2020

Blake Campbell
McKenna Marsden
Vhalla Otarod
Kat Read, Don Kissel Award for Nonfiction
Megan Waring
Jaime Zuckerman

2019

A.H.Jerroid Avant
Nora Caplan-Bricker, Don Kissel Award for Nonfiction
William Dowd
Opal Gayle
Elisse Kang (E.K. Ota)
Grace Yun

2018

Hilary Dobel
Kit Haggard
Cindy House, Don Kissel Award for Nonfiction
Neshat Khan
Shelley Senai

2017

Sam Cha
Rage Hezekiah
Genevieve Plunkett
Sara Rivera
Sophia Starmack
Robert Sykora

2016

Sari Boren
Krysten Hill
Brionne Janae
Aaron Krol
Caitlin McGill
Janice Obuchowski

2015

Catherine Elcik
Megan Grumbling
Jillian Jackson
Danielle Jones-Pruett
Whitney Scharer
Stephanie Soleau

2014

Erin Almond
Duy Doan
Matthew Neil Null
Mackenzie VanEngelenhoven
Mai Wang

2013

Stephen Cowperthwaite
Emma Duffy-Comparone
Robin Merrill
Annie Sloniker

2012

Nathan Beyer
Jay Franzel
Anne Gray Fischer
Sara Majka
John Stazinksi

2011

Henry “Chip” Cheek
Claire Hersom
James Scott

2010

Kimberly Elkins
Trent Masiki
Linwood Rumney
Farley Urmston

2009

Meghan Dunn
Sonya Larson
Heather Madden
Emily Shelton

2008

Elaine Dimopoulos
Kathleen Foster
Paul Harding
Hillary Nelson

2007

Urban Waite
Maya Sloan
Paul Yoon

2006

Brian Baise
Susanna Brougham
Kathleen Spencer
Melissa Wessels

2005

Jennifer Barber
Katherine Bell
Eleanor Brown Steele
Ian Ganassi
Ralph Sneeden

2004

Ellen Dudley
William Giraldi
David Khoury
S. Fredrick Liss
Stephanie Saldana
Cynthia Shur
George Van Deventer

2003

Hilary Rao
Jonathan Fink
Julie Rold
Yael Shinar
Olette Trouve
Ellen Wilbur

2002

David Daniel
Carol Dine
Carol Edelstein
Michael Lowenthal
Maryanne O’Hara
Roger Sedarat
Jessica Treadway