THE WINNERS OF THE WHITING AWARD, 1985–2020

from The 2020 Whiting Awards

Jia Tolentino

Raymond Abbott, Fiction, 1985 Aria Aber, Poetry, 2020 André Aciman, Fiction, 1995 David Adjmi, Drama, 2010 Ellen Akins, Fiction, 1989 Daniel Alarcón, Fiction, 2004 Jeffery Renard Allen, Fiction, Poetry, 2002 Mindy Aloff, Nonfiction, 1987 Diannely Antigua, Poetry, 2020 Will Arbery, Drama, 2020 Elizabeth Arnold, Poetry, 2002 John Ash, Poetry, 1986 Kirsten Bakis, Fiction, 2004 Catherine Barnett, Poetry, 2004 Clare Barron, Drama, 2017 Elif Batuman, Nonfiction, 2010 Jen Beagin, Fiction, 2017 Jo Ann Beard, Nonfiction, 1997 Mischa Berlinski, Fiction, 2008 Ciaran Berry, Poetry, 2012 Sherwin Bitsui, Poetry, 2006 Scott Blackwood, Fiction, 2011 Brian Blanchfield, Nonfiction, 2016 Judy Blunt, Nonfiction, 2001 Anne Boyer, Poetry, Nonfiction, 2018 Courtney A. Brkic, Fiction, 2003 Joel Brouwer, Poetry, 2001 Jericho Brown, Poetry, 2009 Michael Burkard, Poetry, 1988 Michael Byers, Fiction, 1998 Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Fiction, 2005 Ryan Call, Fiction, 2011 Sheila Callaghan, Drama, 2007 Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Poetry, 2019 Francisco Cantú, Nonfiction, 2017 Anthony Carelli, Poetry, 2015 Hayden Carruth, Poetry, 1986 Emily Carter, Fiction, 2001 Joan Chase, Fiction, 1987 Alexander Chee, Fiction, 2003 Dan Chiasson, Poetry, 2004 Don Mee Choi, Poetry, 2011 Paul Clemens, Nonfiction, 2011 Robert Cohen, Fiction, 2000 Christopher Cokinos, Nonfiction, 2003 Clarence Coo, Drama, 2017 Amanda Coplin, Fiction, 2013 Leopoldine Core, Fiction, 2015 Eduardo C. Corral, Poetry, 2011 Patty Yumi Cottrell, Fiction, 2018 Mark Cox, Poetry, 1987 Douglas Crase, Poetry, 1985 Justin Cronin, Fiction, 2002 Stanley Crouch, Nonfiction, 1991 Michael Cunningham, Fiction, 1995 Michael Dahlie, Fiction, 2010 Charles D’Ambrosio, Fiction, 2006 J. D. Daniels, Nonfiction, 2016 Lydia Davis, Fiction, 1988 Nathan Alan Davis, Drama, 2018 Tyree Daye, Poetry, 2019 Connie Deanovich, Poetry, 1997 Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams, Fiction,

Nonfiction, 2013 Hernan Diaz, Fiction, 2019 Jaquira Díaz, Nonfiction, 2020 LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Poetry, 2016 Trudy Dittmar, Nonfiction, 2003 Matt Donovan, Poetry, 2010 Mark Doty, Poetry, 1994 Jennifer Dubois, Fiction, 2013 Bruce Duffy, Fiction, 1988 Pam Durban, Fiction, 1987 Stuart Dybek, Fiction, 1985 Gerald Early, Nonfiction, 1988 Russell Edson, Poetry, 1989

Kim Edwards, Fiction, 2002 Louis Edwards, Fiction, 1994 Erik Ehn, Drama, 1997 Gretel Ehrlich, Nonfiction, 1987 Nancy Eimers, Poetry, 1998 Deborah Eisenberg, Fiction, 1987 Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poetry, 2005 Jeffrey Eugenides, Fiction, 1993 Roger Fanning, Poetry, 1992 Anderson Ferrell, Fiction, 1996 Kathleen Finneran, Nonfiction, 2001 Ben Fountain, Fiction, 2007 Jonathan Franzen, Fiction, 1988 Kennedy Fraser, Nonfiction, 1994 Ian Frazier, Nonfiction, 1989 Nell Freudenberger, Fiction, 2005 Forrest Gander, Poetry, 1997 Cristina García, Fiction, 1996 Madeleine George, Drama, 2016 David Gewanter, Poetry, 2002 Melissa James Gibson, Drama, 2002 Dagoberto Gilb, Fiction, 1993 Samantha Gillison, Fiction, 2000 Aracelis Girmay, Poetry, 2015 Jody Gladding, Poetry, 1997 Allison Glock, Nonfiction, 2004 Molly Gloss, Fiction, 1996 Rebecca Goldstein, Fiction, 1991 Allegra Goodman, Fiction, 1991 Jorie Graham, Poetry, 1985 Lucy Grealy, Nonfiction, Poetry, 1995 Kaitlyn Greenidge, Fiction, 2017 Elana Greenfield, Drama, Fiction, 2004 Linda Gregg, Poetry, 1985 Gordon Grice, Nonfiction, 1999 Virginia Grise, Drama, 2013 Rinne Groff, Drama, 2005 Paul Guest, Poetry, 2007 Stephen Adly Guirgis, Drama, 2006 Danai Gurira, Drama, 2012 Daniel Hall, Poetry, 1998 Lisa Halliday, Fiction, 2017 W. David Hancock, Drama, 1998 Kent Haruf, Fiction, 1986 Michael Haskell, Poetry, 1999 Ehud Havazelet, Fiction, 1999 Terrance Hayes, Poetry, 1999 Alan Heathcock, Fiction, 2012 Amy Herzog, Drama, 2011 Emily Hiestand, Poetry, 1990 Rick Hilles, Poetry, 2008 Lucas Hnath, Drama, 2015 Eva Hoffman, Nonfiction, 1992 Donovan Hohn, Nonfiction, 2008 John Holman, Fiction, 1991 Mary Hood, Fiction, 1994 Jay Hopler, Poetry, 2009 Michelle Huneven, Fiction, 2002 Samuel D. Hunter, Drama, 2012 Ishion Hutchinson, Poetry, 2013 Naomi Iizuka, Drama, 1999 James Ijames, Drama, 2017 Major Jackson, Poetry, 2003 Michael R. Jackson, Drama, 2019 Mitchell S. Jackson, Fiction, 2016 Tyehimba Jess, Poetry, 2006 Adam Johnson, Fiction, 2009 Denis Johnson, Fiction, 1986 Jenny Johnson, Poetry, 2015 R. S. Jones, Fiction, 1992 A. Van Jordan, Poetry, 2004 Dan Josefson, Fiction, 2015 Rajiv Joseph, Drama, 2009 Hansol Jung, Drama, 2018 Cynthia Kadohata, Fiction, 1991 Agymah Kamau, Fiction, 2003

Ilya Kaminsky, Poetry, 2005 Joan Kane, Poetry, 2009 Seth Kantner, Fiction, 2005 Mary Karr, Poetry, 1989 Douglas Kearney, Poetry, 2008 John Keene, Fiction, Poetry, 2005 Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Poetry, 1996 Randall Kenan, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1994 Brad Kessler, Fiction, 2007 Laleh Khadivi, Fiction, 2008 Alice Sola Kim, Fiction, 2016 Suji Kwock Kim, Poetry, 2006 James Kimbrell, Poetry, 1998 Lily King, Fiction, 2000 Brian Kiteley, Fiction, 1996 Matthew Klam, Fiction, 2001 Kevin Kling, Drama, 1993 Wayne Koestenbaum, Nonfiction,

Poetry, 1994 Tony Kushner, Drama, 1990 Natalie Kusz, Nonfiction, 1989 Catherine Lacey, Fiction, 2016 Mary La Chapelle, Fiction, 1988 Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Fiction, 2010 Rickey Laurentiis, Poetry, 2018 Victor Lavalle, Fiction, 2004 Andrea Lawlor, Fiction, 2020 Amy Leach, Nonfiction, 2010 Li-Young Lee, Poetry, 1988 Suzannah Lessard, Nonfiction, 1995 Dana Levin, Poetry, 2005 Mark Levine, Poetry, 1993 Yiyun Li, Fiction, 2006 Ralph Lombreglia, Fiction,

Nonfiction, 1998 Layli Long Soldier, Poetry, 2016 Ling Ma, Fiction, 2020 Nathaniel Mackey, Fiction, Poetry, 1993 Rosemary Mahoney, Nonfiction, 1994 Terese Marie Mailhot, Nonfiction, 2019 Mona Mansour, Drama, 2012 Micheline A. Marcom, Fiction, 2006 Ben Marcus, Fiction, 1999 J. S. Marcus, Fiction, 1992 Anthony Marra, Fiction, 2012 Dionisio D. Martínez, Poetry, 1993 Nina Marie Martínez, Fiction, 2006 Cate Marvin, Poetry, 2007 Shane McCrae, Poetry, 2011 Tarell Alvin McCraney, Drama, 2007 Alice McDermott, Fiction, 1987 Reginald McKnight, Fiction, 1995 John McManus, Fiction, 2000 James McMichael, Poetry, 1995 Scott McPherson, Drama, 1991 Jane Mead, Poetry, 1992 Suketu Mehta, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1997 Morgan Meis, Nonfiction, 2013 Ellen Meloy, Nonfiction, 1997 Michael Meyer, Nonfiction, 2009 Meg Miroshnik, Drama, 2012 Albert Mobilio, Fiction, Poetry, 2000 C. E. Morgan, Fiction, 2013 Wright Morris, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1985 Sylvia Moss, Poetry, 1988 Thylias Moss, Poetry, 1991 Brighde Mullins, Drama, 2001 Nami Mun, Fiction, 2009 Manuel Muñoz, Fiction, 2008 Yannick Murphy, Fiction, 1990 Yxta Maya Murray, Fiction, 1999 Lawrence Naumoff, Fiction, 1990 Howard Norman, Fiction, 1985 Bruce Norris, Drama, 2006 Josip Novakovich, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1997 Sigrid Nunez, Fiction, 1993

Dennis Nurkse, Poetry, 1990 Antoinette Nwandu, Drama, 2018 Geoffrey O’Brien, Nonfiction, 1988 Chris Offutt, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1996 Patrick O’Keeffe, Fiction, 2006 Dael Orlandersmith, Drama, 2008 Daniel Orozco, Fiction, 2011 Nadia Owusu, Nonfiction, 2019 ZZ Packer, Fiction, 1999 Ann Pancake, Fiction, 2003 Suzan-Lori Parks, Drama, 1992 Elena Passarello, Nonfiction, 2015 Lydia Peelle, Fiction, 2010 Janet Peery, Fiction, 1993 Kathleen Peirce, Poetry, 1993 Benjamin Percy, Fiction, 2008 Andrew X. Pham, Nonfiction, 2000 Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Poetry, 2013 Tommy Pico, Poetry, 2018 Claudia Roth Pierpont, Nonfiction, 1994 Darryl Pinckney, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1986 Katha Pollitt, Nonfiction, Poetry, 1992 Reinaldo Povod, Drama, 1987 Padgett Powell, Fiction, 1986 Stephanie Powell Watts, Fiction, 2013 Brontez Purnell, Fiction, 2018 Hanna Pylväinen, Fiction, 2012 Hugh Raffles, Nonfiction, 2009 Keith Reddin, Drama, 1992 Spencer Reece, Poetry, 2005 Roger Reeves, Poetry, 2015 Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Nonfiction, 2012 Mark Richard, Fiction, 1990 Atsuro Riley, Poetry, 2012 Harriet Ritvo, Nonfiction, 1990 José Rivera, Drama, 1992 Lewis Robinson, Fiction, 2003 James Robison, Fiction, 1985 Rick Rofihe, Fiction, 1991 Carlo Rotella, Nonfiction, 2007 Jess Row, Fiction, 2003 Mary Ruefle, Poetry, 1995 Sarah Ruhl, Drama, 2003 Michael Ryan, Poetry, 1987 Russ Rymer, Nonfiction, 1995 Luc Sante, Nonfiction, 1989 Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Nonfiction, 2010 James Schuyler, Poetry, 1985 Salvatore Scibona, Fiction, 2009 Danzy Senna, Fiction, 2002 Anton Shammas, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1991 Akhil Sharma, Fiction, 2001 Lisa Shea, Fiction, 1993 Julie Sheehan, Poetry, 2008 Mona Simpson, Fiction, 1986 Safiya Sinclair, Poetry, 2016 Jake Skeets, Poetry, 2020 Genevieve Sly Crane, Fiction, 2020 Evan Smith, Drama, 2002 Tracy K. Smith, Poetry, 2005 Dalia Sofer, Fiction, 2007 Jason Sommer, Poetry, 2001 Elizabeth Spires, Poetry, 1996 Jane Springer, Poetry, 2010 Matthew Stadler, Fiction, 1995 Frank Stewart, Poetry, 1986 Ruth Stone, Poetry, 1986 Patricia Storace, Nonfiction, Poetry, 1996 Kelly Stuart, Drama, 2000 John Jeremiah Sullivan, Nonfiction, 2004 Melanie Sumner, Fiction, 1995 Mary Swander, Nonfiction, Poetry, 1994 Margaret Talbot, Nonfiction, 1999 Lysley Tenorio, Fiction, 2008 James Thomas Stevens, Poetry, 2000 Clifford Thompson, Nonfiction, 2013

Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Fiction, 2019 LB Thompson, Poetry, 2010 Melanie Rae Thon, Fiction, 1997 Merritt Tierce, Fiction, 2019 Christopher Tilghman, Fiction, 1990 Jia Tolentino, Nonfiction, 2020 Peter Trachtenberg, Nonfiction, 2007 Vu Tran, Fiction, 2009 Judy Troy, Fiction, 1996 Tony Tulathimutte, Fiction, 2017 Jack Turner, Nonfiction, 2007 Genya Turovskaya, Poetry, 2020 Mark Turpin, Poetry, 1997 Samrat Upadhyay, Fiction, 2001 Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Fiction, 2015 A. J. Verdelle, Fiction, 1996 Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Poetry, 2019 William T. Vollmann, Fiction, 1988 Ocean Vuong, Poetry, 2016 D. J. Waldie, Nonfiction, 1998 David Foster Wallace, Fiction, 1987 Anthony Walton, Nonfiction, 1998 Esmé Weijun Wang, Nonfiction, 2018 Weike Wang, Fiction, 2018 Anne Washburn, Drama, 2015 Teddy Wayne, Fiction, 2011 Charles Harper Webb, Poetry, 1998 Kerri Webster, Poetry, 2011 Joshua Weiner, Poetry, 2002 Timberlake Wertenbaker, Drama, 1989 Kate Wheeler, Fiction, 1994 Simone White, Poetry, 2017 Colson Whitehead, Fiction, 2000 Marianne Wiggins, Fiction, 1989 Amy Wilentz, Nonfiction, 1990 Damien Wilkins, Fiction, 1992 Claude Wilkinson, Poetry, 2000 Phillip B. Williams, Poetry, 2017 Greg Williamson, Poetry, 1998 August Wilson, Drama, 1986 Tracey Scott Wilson, Drama, 2004 Tobias Wolff, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1989 John Wray, Fiction, 2001 Austin Wright, Fiction, Nonfiction, 1985 C. D. Wright, Poetry, 1989 Franz Wright, Poetry, 1991 Stephen Wright, Fiction, 1990 Lauren Yee, Drama, 2019 Martha Zweig, Poetry, 1999

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