Awards

LA's PEN Center USA announced their Literary Awards winners, who include:

Creative Nonfiction: Meghan Daum, The Unspeakable
Fiction: Robert Thomas, Bridge
Poetry: Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Research Nonfiction: McKenzie Funk, Windfall
Young Adult/Children's: Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Separately, poet Joy Harjo has been named the recipient of the Academy of American Poets' $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award for "proven mastery." 

via Publishers Lunch