Justin Phillip Reed, author Indecency (Coffee House Press), Franny Choi, author of Soft Science (Alice James Books), and José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal (Haymarket Books) are all recipients of 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
Kenton Nelson’s Water: California Idealism and Mary Lea Carroll’s Saint Everywhere: Travels in Search of the Lady Saints (both Prospect Park Books) are finalists for 2019 SCIBA Book Awards.