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National Book Award Longlist
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National Book Critics Circle Award
Jericho Brown
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Medar de la Cruz
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Bryan Doerries
Theater of War Productions
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#1 NYT Bestselling Novelist
House of Sand and Fog
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Arab American Book Award
National Book Award Longlist
Martín Espada
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Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Bernardine Evaristo
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Memoir: What You Have Heard Is True
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US Poet Laureate (2015-17)
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Brenda Hillman
Griffin Poetry Prize
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Michael Kleber-Diggs
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Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
Li-Young Lee
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Hisham Matar
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PEN America Jean Stein Book Award
Rajiv Mohabir
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Memoir: Antiman
Valzhyna Mort
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Translator of Slavic
John Murillo
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Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Ladan Osman
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Alicia Ostriker
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Jewish Book Award
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Windham Campbell Prize
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Zong!
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Latino Trendsetter Award
Claudia Rankine
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NBCCA & Forward Prize
Nicole Sealey
Forward Prize
Former Executive Director of Cave Canem (2017-2019)
Sun Yung Shin
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Minnesota Book Award
Danez Smith
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Lambda Literary Award
Chris Stedman
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Host of Unread
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
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PEN Open Book Award
Natasha Trethewey
US Poet Laureate (2012-2014)
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet
Brian Turner
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IMPAC Dublin Award
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Frank B. Wilderson III
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