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Recent Awards for Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors
Michael Bazzett was named a finalist for 2014 Best of the Net by Sundress Publications for his poem “The Date,” which originally appeared in Blackbird v13n1.
Sandra Beasley received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Amy Beeder received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mary Biddinger received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Linda Bierds was longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry for Roget’s Illusion (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Group, 2014).
Anders Carlson-Wee won the 2015 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. He received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Brittany Cavallaro received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ye Chun received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Matt Donovan was awarded the 2015 Snowbound Chapbook Award by Tupelo Press for his manuscript, Ten Burnt Lakes.
Tarfia Faizullah’s collection, Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), won the 2015 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for poetry, as well as a 2015 VIDA Award for poetry.
Adrianne Harun won a 2015 Pinckley Prize for a Debut Novel for A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain (Penguin Books, 2014). She was named a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellow.
Terrance Hayes was named a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellow.
Shara Lessley received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Jamaal May was named a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellow.
Allan Peterson was named the winner of the 2014 Snowbound Chapbook Poetry Award. His chapbook, Other Than They Seem, will be published by Tupelo Press.
Claudia Rankine won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry for Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press, 2014). She received a 2015 VIDA Award for poetry.
Natalie Shapero received a 2014 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sidney Wade was selected by Sherman Alexie for inclusion in The Best American Poetry 2015 (Scribner) for her poem, “The Chickasaw Trees,” which originally appeared in Blackbird v13n1.
Sally Wen Mao was selected by Kathy Fagan for inclusion in the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Publications) for her poem, “Myopia: A Cartography,” which originally appeared in Blackbird v13n1.
Recent Books by Current and Previous Blackbird Contributors
The Octopus Game
Nikki Beer
Carnegie Mellon
The Marauders
Tom Cooper
Crown Publishing
Trip Through Your Wires
Sarah Layden
Engine Books
Hum
Jamaal May
Alice James Books
Spans: New and Collected Poems
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
Louisiana State University Press
Hotel Worthy
Valerie Nieman
Press 53
Driving to the Bees
Maggie Schwed
Black Lawrence Press
