2017 Poetry Chapbook Winner
Malcolm Tariq
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Malcolm Tariq is a Cave Canem fellow from Savannah, Georgia. A graduate of Emory University, he is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in CURA, Vinyl, HEArt Online, Nepantla, Tinderbox, and Blueshift Journal. Malcolm was a 2017-2018 playwright apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia and sometimes at NowhereSouth.com.
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2017 Fiction Chapbook Winner
Wendy Oleson
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Wendy Oleson is author of Our Daughter and Other Stories (Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award Series). Her stories, poems, and hybrid texts appear in Passages North, [PANK], Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, and elsewhere. She has received fiction fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and serves as editorial staff for Fairy Tale Review and Memorious Magazine. Wendy teaches for the Writers’ Program at UCLA Extension and Washington State University at Tri-Cities. She lives with a hiccup-prone dog, Winston, and her wife in Walla Walla, Washington.
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2017 Creative Non-Fiction Chapbook Winner
Joe Jimenez
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Joe Jiménez is the author of The Possibilities of Mud (Korima, 2014) and Bloodline (Arte Público. 2016). Jiménez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/ Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. Jimenez’s essays and poems have recently appeared in The Adroit Journal, Iron Horse, RHINO, Aster(ix), and Waxwing, and on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Jimenez was recently awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship from 2017-2020. He lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is a member of the Macondo Writing Workshops. joejimenez.net.
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