2024 Winner
Winifred Hughes from Princeton, New Jersey. Read more about her winning book The Village of New Ghosts, which judge Grace Cavalieri said she “never wanted to stop reading.”
2022 Winner
Mark Elber from Fall River, Massachusetts. Read more about his winning book Headstone, which judge David Keplinger calls “an illustration of the aliveness of the past as it courses in us.”
2020 Winner
Dennis H. Lee from Hillsborough, New Jersey. Read more about his winning book Tidal Wave, which judge David Keplinger calls “a serious achievement of growing up and growing older.”