Year |
Recipients |
2016 |
Brian Blanchfield, nonfiction |
J. D. Daniels, nonfiction |
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, poetry |
Madeleine George, drama |
Mitchell S. Jackson, fiction |
Alice Sola Kim, fiction |
Catherine Lacey, fiction |
Layli Long Soldier, poetry |
Safiya Sinclair, poetry |
Ocean Vuong, poetry |
2015 |
Anthony Carelli, poetry |
Leopoldine Core, fiction |
Aracelis Girmay, poetry |
Lucas Hnath, drama |
Jenny Johnson, poetry |
Dan Josefson, fiction |
Elena Passarello, nonfiction |
Roger Reeves, poetry |
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, fiction |
Anne Washburn, drama |
2013 |
Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, fiction & nonfiction |
Amanda Coplin, fiction |
Jennifer duBois, fiction |
Virginia Grise, playwright |
Ishion Hutchinson, poetry |
Morgan Meis, nonfiction |
C.E. Morgan, fiction |
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, poetry |
Clifford Thompson, nonfiction |
Stephanie Powell Watts, fiction |
2012 |
Ciaran Berry, poetry |
Danai Gurira, playwright |
Alan Heathcock, fiction |
Samuel D. Hunter, playwright |
Mona Mansour, playwright |
Anthony Marra, fiction |
Meg Miroshnik, playwright |
Hanna Pylväinen, fiction |
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, non-fiction |
Atsuro Riley, poetry |
2011 |
Scott Blackwood, fiction |
Ryan Call, fiction |
Don Mee Choi, poetry |
Paul Clemens, nonfiction |
Eduardo C. Corral, poetry |
Amy Herzog, plays |
Shane McCrae, poetry |
Daniel Orozco, fiction |
Teddy Wayne, fiction |
Kerri Webster, poetry |
2010 |
David Adjmi, plays |
Elif Batuman, nonfiction |
Michael Dahlie, fiction |
Matt Donovan, poetry |
Rattawut Lapcharoensap, fiction |
Amy Leach, nonfiction |
Lydia Peelle, fiction |
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, nonfiction |
Jane Springer, poetry |
L.B. Thompson, poetry |
2009 |
Jericho Brown, poetry |
Jay Hopler, poetry |
Adam Johnson, fiction |
Rajiv Joseph, plays |
Joan Kane, poetry |
Michael Meyer, nonfiction |
Nami Mun, fiction |
Hugh Raffles, nonfiction |
Salvatore Scibona, fiction |
Vu Tran, fiction |
2008 |
Mischa Berlinski, fiction |
Rick Hilles, poetry |
Donovan Hohn, nonfiction |
Douglas Kearney, poetry |
Laleh Khadivi, fiction |
Manuel Muñoz, fiction |
Dael Orlandersmith, plays |
Benjamin Percy, fiction |
Julie Sheehan, poetry |
Lysley Tenorio, fiction |
2007 |
Sheila Callaghan, plays |
Ben Fountain, fiction |
Paul Guest, poetry |
Brad Kessler, fiction |
Cate Marvin, poetry |
Tarell Alvin McCraney, plays |
Carlo Rotella, nonfiction |
Dalia Sofer, fiction |
Peter Trachtenberg, nonfiction |
Jack Turner, nonfiction |
2006 |
Sherwin Bitsui, poetry |
Charles D’Ambrosio, fiction |
Stephen Adly Guirgis, plays |
Tyehimba Jess, poetry |
Suji Kwock Kim, poetry |
Yiyun Li, fiction |
Micheline Aharonian Marcom, fiction |
Nina Marie Martínez, fiction |
Bruce Norris, plays |
Patrick O’Keeffe, fiction |
2005 |
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, fiction |
Thomas Sayers Ellis, poetry |
Nell Freudenberger, fiction |
Rinne Groff, plays |
Ilya Kaminsky, poetry |
Seth Kantner, fiction |
John Keene, fiction/poetry |
Dana Levin, poetry |
Spencer Reece, poetry |
Tracy K. Smith, poetry |
2004 |
Daniel Alarcon, fiction |
Kirsten Bakis, fiction |
Catherine Barnett, poetry |
Dan Chiasson, poetry |
Allison Glock, nonfiction |
Elana Greenfield, plays |
A. Van Jordan, poetry |
Victor LaValle, fiction |
John Jeremiah Sullivan, nonfiction |
Tracey Scott Wilson, plays |
2003 |
Courtney Angela Brkic, fiction and nonfiction |
Alexander Chee, fiction |
Christopher Cokinos, nonfiction |
Trudy Dittmar, nonfiction |
Major Jackson, poetry |
Agymah Kamau, fiction |
Ann Pancake, fiction |
Lewis Robinson, fiction |
Jess Row, fiction |
Sarah Ruhl, plays |
2002 |
Jeffery Renard Allen, fiction |
Elizabeth Arnold, poetry |
Justin Cronin, fiction |
Kim Edwards, fiction |
David Gewanter, poetry |
Melissa James Gibson, plays |
Michelle Huneven, fiction |
Danzy Senna, fiction |
Evan Smith, plays |
Joshua Weiner, poetry |
2001 |
Judy Blunt, nonfiction |
Joel Brouwer, poetry |
Emily Carter, fiction |
Kathleen Finneran, nonfiction |
Matthew Klam, fiction |
Brighde Mullins, plays |
Akhil Sharma, fiction |
Jason Sommer, poetry |
Samrat Upadhyay, fiction |
John Wray, fiction |
2000 |
Robert Cohen, fiction |
Samantha Gillison, fiction |
Andrew X. Pham, nonfiction |
Lily King, fiction |
John McManus, fiction |
Albert Mobilio, poetry/fiction |
James Thomas Stevens (Aronhiotas), poetry |
Kelly Stuart, plays |
Colson Whitehead, fiction |
Claude Wilkinson, poetry |
1999 |
Gordon Grice, nonfiction |
Michael Haskell, poetry |
Ehud Havazelet, fiction |
Terrance Hayes, poetry |
Naomi Iizuka, plays |
Ben Marcus, fiction |
Yxta Maya Murray, fiction |
ZZ Packer, fiction |
Margaret Talbot, nonfiction |
Martha Zweig, poetry |
1998 |
Michael Byers, fiction |
Nancy Eimers, poetry |
Daniel Hall, poetry |
W. David Hancock, plays |
James Kimbrell, poetry |
Ralph Lombreglia, fiction/nonfiction |
D. J. Waldie, nonfiction |
Anthony Walton, nonfiction |
Charles Harper Webb, poetry |
Greg Williamson, poetry |
1997 |
Jo Ann Beard, nonfiction |
Connie Deanovich, poetry |
Erik Ehn, plays |
Forrest Gander, poetry |
Jody Gladding, poetry |
Suketu Mehta, fiction/nonfiction |
Ellen Meloy, nonfiction |
Josip Novakovich, fiction/ nonfiction |
Melanie Rae Thon, fiction |
Mark Turpin, poetry |
1996 |
Anderson Ferrell, fiction |
Cristina García, fiction |
Molly Gloss, fiction |
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, poetry |
Brian Kiteley, fiction |
Chris Offutt, fiction/nonfiction |
Elizabeth Spires, poetry |
Patricia Storace, nonfiction/ poetry |
Judy Troy, fiction |
A.J. Verdelle, fiction |
1995 |
André Aciman, nonfiction |
Michael Cunningham, fiction |
Lucy Grealy, nonfiction/ poetry |
Suzannah Lessard, nonfiction |
Reginald McKnight, fiction |
James McMichael, poetry |
Mary Ruefle, poetry |
Russ Rymer, nonfiction |
Matthew Stadler, fiction |
Melanie Sumner, fiction |
1994 |
Mark Doty, poetry |
Louis Edwards, fiction |
Kennedy Fraser, nonfiction |
Mary Hood, fiction |
Randall Kenan, fiction/nonfiction |
Wayne Koestenbaum, nonfiction/poetry |
Rosemary Mahoney, nonfiction |
Claudia Roth Pierpont, nonfiction |
Mary Swander, poetry/nonfiction |
Kate Wheeler, fiction |
1993 |
Jeffrey Eugenides, fiction |
Dagoberto Gilb, fiction |
Kevin Kling, plays |
Mark Levine, poetry |
Nathaniel Mackey, poetry/fiction |
Dionisio D. Martinez poetry |
Sigrid Nunez, fiction |
Janet Peery, fiction |
Kathleen Peirce, poetry |
Lisa Shea, fiction |
1992 |
Roger Fanning, poetry |
Eva Hoffman, nonfiction |
R.S. Jones, fiction |
J.S. Marcus, fiction |
Jane Mead, poetry |
Suzan-Lori Parks, plays |
Katha Pollitt, poetry/nonfiction |
Keith Reddin, plays |
José Rivera, plays |
Damien Wilkins, fiction |
1991 |
Stanley Crouch, nonfiction |
Rebecca Goldstein, fiction |
Allegra Goodman, fiction |
John Holman, fiction |
Cynthia Kadohata, fiction |
Scott McPherson, plays |
Thylias Moss, poetry |
Rick Rofihe, fiction |
J Anton Shammas, fiction/nonfiction |
Franz Wright, poetry |
1990 |
Emily Hiestand, poetry |
Tony Kushner, plays |
Yannick Murphy, fiction |
Lawrence Naumoff, fiction |
Dennis Nurkse, poetry |
Mark Richard, fiction |
Harriet Ritvo, nonfiction |
Christopher Tilghman, fiction |
Amy Wilentz, nonfiction |
Stephen Wright, fiction |
1989 |
Ellen Akins, fiction |
Russell Edson, poetry |
Ian Frazier, nonfiction |
Mary Karr, poetry |
Natalie Kusz, nonfiction |
Luc Sante, nonfiction |
Timberlake Wertenbaker, plays |
Marianne Wiggins, fiction |
Tobias Wolff, nonfiction/fiction |
C. D. Wright, poetry |
1988 |
Michael Burkard, poetry |
Lydia Davis, fiction |
Bruce Duffy, fiction |
Gerald Early, nonfiction |
Jonathan Franzen, fiction |
Mary La Chapelle, fiction |
Li-Young Lee, poetry |
Sylvia Moss, poetry |
Geoffrey O'Brien, nonfiction |
William T. Vollmann, fiction |
1987 |
Mindy Aloff, nonfiction |
Joan Chase, fiction |
Mark Cox, poetry |
Pam Durban, fiction |
Gretel Ehrlich, nonfiction |
Deborah Eisenberg, fiction |
Alice McDermott, fiction |
Reinaldo Povod, plays |
Michael Ryan, poetry |
David Foster Wallace, fiction |
1986 |
John Ash, poetry |
Hayden Carruth, poetry |
Kent Haruf, fiction |
Denis Johnson, fiction |
Darryl Pinckney, nonfiction/fiction |
Padgett Powell, fiction |
Mona Simpson, fiction |
Frank Stewart, poetry |
Ruth Stone, poetry |
August Wilson, plays |
1985 |
Raymond Abbott, fiction |
Douglas Crase, poetry |
Stuart Dybek, fiction |
Jorie Graham, poetry |
Linda Gregg, poetry |
Wright Morris, fiction/nonfiction |
Howard Norman, fiction |
James Robison, fiction |
James Schuyler, poetry |
Austin Wright, fiction/nonfiction |