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Winners of the 2000 AWP Award Series in Poetry, Short Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, & the AWP/Thomas Dunne Books Novel Award

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Joanie V. Mackowski
The AWP Award Series in Poetry
Joanie V. Mackowski
The Zoo

Judge: Li-Young Lee
University of Pittsburgh Press

Joanie V. Mackowski attended Wesleyan University, the University of Washington, and most recently was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her work has appeared in Poetry and The Paris Review.

Michelle Richmond
The AWP Award Series in Short Fiction
Michelle Richmond
The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress

Judge: Jill McCorkle
University of Massachusetts Press

Michelle Richmond’s fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, The Florida Review, Fish Stories, and various anthologies. She has received fellowships from the Michener Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She lives in San Francisco, California.


The AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction
Brian Lennon
City: An Essay

Judge: Sven Birkerts
University of Georgia Press

Brian Lennon was born in New York City in 1971 and educated at Wesleyan University, The University of Iowa, and Columbia University, where he is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature.


The AWP/Thomas Dunne Books Novel Award
Alexander Parsons
Leaving Disneyland

St. Martin's Press

Alexander Parsons was born in London, England, and has lived most of his life in New Mexico. He teaches and writes at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. He holds degrees from Wesleyan University, New Mexico State University, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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