News from Past Award Winners
ELIF BATUMAN’s (RJF Award '07) first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February 2010.
Photo: Mikhail Lemkhin
EULA BISS (RJF Award '02) is a 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for her recent collection Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press).
ADRIAN BLEVINS (RJF Award '02) published her second poetry collection, Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009).
GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI’s (RJF Award '02) second collection, Apocalyptic Swing, was published by Persea Books in 2009.
ROBIN EKISS (RJF Award '07) published her first collection of poems, The Mansion of Happiness (The University of Georgia Press, VQR Poetry Series, 2009).
Photo: Matt Schumaker
RIVKA GALCHEN's (RJF Award '06) first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2008. She is a 2009-10 Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars.
FRANCES HWANG (RJF Award '05), author of Transparency: Stories (Back Bay Books, 2007), received a 2008 PEN Beyond Margins Award and the 2008 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
HOLLY GODDARD JONES's (RJF Award '07) debut, Girl Trouble: Stories, appeared from Harper Perennial in September 2009.
CONSTANCE MERRITT (RJF Award '01) published her third book of poems, Two Rooms (Louisiana State University Press, 2009).
LADETTE RANDOLPH's (RJF Award '02) first novel, A Sandhills Ballad, was published in spring 2009 by the University of New Mexico Press. She was recently named editor-in-chief of Ploughshares.
MELISSA RANGE’s (RJF Award '06) first collection of poetry, Horse and Rider, is the winner of Texas Tech University Press’s Walt McDonald First Book Prize and will be published in March 2010.
Photo: Claire McQuerry
CATIE ROSEMURGY (RJF Award '01) recently published her second book of poems, The Stranger Manual (Graywolf Press, December 2009).
JULIA WHITTY's (RJF Award '03) second book, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific (Houghton Mifflin, 2007) received the 2008 PEN Literary Award, 2008 John Burroughs Medal, 2008 Kiriyama Prize, 2008 Northern California Book Award, and was a 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist.
