Sponsoring Organization:Empowering Latino Futures Award Level: Honorable Mention | Award Year: 2020 Award Category: Best Collection of Short Stories Winner(s): Staten Island Stories by Claire Jimenez
A longtime Staten Islander, Claire Jimenez is a PhD student in English with a concentration in ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She received her BA in English from Colby College and her MFA in creative writing from Vanderbilt University. Her fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in BOAAT, New Madrid, Afro-Hispanic Review, Pank, el roommate, The Toast, and The Los Angeles...
Sponsoring Organization: International Public Policy AssociationAward Level: Winner| Award Year: 2025Winner(s): A Government of Insiders: The People Who Made the Affordable Care Act Possible, by William Genieys
Sponsoring Organization: American Book FestAward Level: Winner| Award Year: 2025Award Category: Short Story Winner(s): The Bliss of Your Attention by David Borofka
Sponsoring Organization: Independent Book Publishers AssociationAward Level: Silver Winner| Award Year: 2025 Award Category: Body, Mind & SpiritWinner(s): Loving Someone with a Mental Illness or History of Trauma by Michelle D. Sherman, PhD, ABPP, and DeAnne M...