Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Nathaniel Mackey	Fiction, Poetry	1993
Ling Ma	Fiction	2020
Layli Long Soldier	Poetry	2016
Ralph Lombreglia	Fiction, Nonfiction	1998
Yiyun Li	Fiction	2006
Mark Levine	Poetry	1993
Dana Levin	Poetry	2005
Suzannah Lessard	Nonfiction	1995
Li-Young Lee	Poetry	1988
Amy Leach	Nonfiction	2010
Andrea Lawlor	Fiction	2020
Victor LaValle	Fiction	2004
Rickey Laurentiis	Poetry	2018
Rattawut Lapcharoensap	Fiction	2010
Mary LaChapelle	Fiction	1988
Catherine Lacey	Fiction	2016
Suji Kwock Kim	Poetry	2006
Natalie Kusz	Nonfiction	1989
Tony Kushner	Drama	1990
Wayne Koestenbaum	Nonfiction, Poetry	1994
Kevin Kling	Drama	1993
Matthew Klam	Fiction	2001
Brian Kiteley	Fiction	1996
Linda Kinstler	Nonfiction	2023
Lily King	Fiction	2000
James Kimbrell	Poetry	1998
Alice Sola Kim	Fiction	2016
Sylvia Khoury	Drama	2021
Laleh Khadivi	Fiction	2008
Brad Kessler	Fiction	2007
Randall Kenan	Fiction, Nonfiction	1994
Brigit Pegeen Kelly	Poetry	1996
John Keene	Fiction, Poetry	2005
Douglas Kearney	Poetry	2008
Mary Karr	Poetry	1989

Selected winners

Joan Chase 1987

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia: A Novel

For as long as we could remember we had been together in the house which established the center of the known world. When we were younger we woke in the mornings while it was...

William T. Vollmann 1988

You Bright and Risen Angels: A Cartoon

The following day, Pablo set the beetle loose, out of “pity,” he told me. (I believe that he was in Mr. White’s employ.) This had terrible consequences for us and our secret...

Yiyun Li 2006

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

Several times a day Granny Lin bathes Old Tang: in the morning and before bedtime, and whenever he wets or dirties himself. The private bathroom is what Granny Lin likes best...

Jennifer duBois 2013

A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel

I told him about the nucleotides, the genetic test, the prognosis. I told him that atrophying of basal ganglia starts years before symptoms present, and that right now—in this...

Donovan Hohn 2008

Harper's Magazine: January 2005

I've lurked in chat rooms with discussion threads devoted to such subjects as “A previously unknown Albert Goodell brace found in the wild.” One sweltering summer morning, on...

Sidik Fofana 2023

Stories from the Tenants Downstairs

This is the address to the station that be playin the news, she say. Imma write to them and they gonna do a story on us.

I’m like, Yo, Kandese, that’s a good...