A story collection centered on Black Muslim communities, tracing how faith, family, work, and desire cross generations and places. It looks closely at the small shifts that shape each life.

A story collection about Black Muslim life, quietly observing the spaces between faith, family, desire, and work.

A story collection following Korean and Korean American families through migration, memory, and intimate forms of care. Deep connections emerge within the small tensions of home.

A story collection about Korean family memory, migration, and the intimate care that holds people together.

Nine stories set in Botswana’s villages and towns follow women, girls, and widows as desire, duty, and community pressure echo through their lives.

Nine stories from Botswana that trace women’s desires, duties, and the pressures of community.

A story collection centered on Chinese and Chinese American outsiders, where the long shadow of history meets personal memory. It balances isolation with the possibility of new beginnings.

A quietly luminous collection about Chinese and Chinese American lives, isolation, and new openings beyond history’s shadow.

An experimental play about family, language, and queer self-understanding. It moves between humor and pain while tracing a self shaped across cultures.

An experimental play about family, language, and queer identity.

A trilogy of plays that turns capital, censorship, and ideology into propulsive parables across different times and places. Political and historical pressure gathers inside each vivid scene.

A trilogy of plays that stages capital, censorship, and ideology as sharp political parables.

A poetry collection shaped by migration, family separation, and border crossing. It gives urgent voice to a childhood journey and the memory that follows it.

A poetry collection about migration, family separation, and the remembered urgency of a childhood journey.

A debut poetry collection that moves through art, history, love, grief, and the body. Across nations and languages, it holds beauty and pain together.

A debut collection of poems about art, history, love, grief, and the body.

A poetry collection about family, gender, grief, and the making of the self. It revisits what is inherited and turns it into a record of change and survival.

A poetry collection on family, gender, grief, and the work of becoming oneself.

Poems that trace family, intimacy, race, sexuality, and violence with precision and restraint. Sharp observation reveals both distance and attachment.

A precise poetry collection tracing family, intimacy, race, and sexuality.

A play about shifting identity, family negotiations, and the difficulty of knowing oneself. Sharp humor sits beside emotional fracture.

A play about identity and family, balancing sharp humor with emotional fracture.

A multi-voiced novel that braids reggae rhythm, spirits, and Jamaican history. Memory and survival resonate through a musical, haunted narrative.

A multi-voiced novel weaving reggae, spirits, and Jamaican history.

A story collection set in a Harlem apartment building, following residents living under the pressure of gentrification. Humor and solidarity persist inside hard realities.

A story collection about Harlem tenants living under the pressure of gentrification.

A story collection rooted in Latino communities in Southern California, where horror, realism, and family tension overlap. Ordinary life slowly tilts toward the uncanny.

A story collection from Southern California’s Latino communities, blending horror with family tension.

A graphic novella about a family in Hawaii moving through loss and transition. Awkward affection and pain across three generations linger in quiet images and words.

A graphic novella about a Hawaiian family living through loss, transition, and three generations of affection.

A piece of reportage about Holocaust memory, justice, and family history. It follows distorted history and the burden of responsibility as living testimony fades.

A report on Holocaust memory, justice, and family history.

An investigative report on the hidden networks that support abortion access after Roe and the risks they face. It reveals both the systems of care and the urgency around them.

An investigative report on the hidden networks supporting abortion access after Roe.

A poetry collection that braids desire, performance, and Black queer embodiment through multiple voices. Intimacy and menace meet in a vivid set of variations.

A poetry collection of desire, performance, and Black queer embodiment in many voices.

A debut poetry collection that returns to loss, desire, and the Black female body through sensuous, disciplined language. Pain and beauty become a form of reclamation.

A debut collection of poems about loss, desire, and the Black female body.

A formally experimental work that moves between poetry and drama to reimagine Joan of Arc through climate anxiety and wit. Faith and apocalypse are refreshed by restless imagination.

A genre-bending, climate-anxious reimagining of Joan of Arc.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Lauren Yee recognizes early achievement and future promise in Drama, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. The plays boldly connect history with personal life, bringing family, migration, political violence, and popular culture together onstage with both comedy and pain.

The award recognizes Lauren Yee's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Michael R. Jackson recognizes early achievement and future promise in Drama, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. His work uses musical and metafictional forms to stage Black queer embodiment, desire, self-scrutiny, and the mechanics of creation with sharp force.

The award recognizes Michael R. Jackson's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Hernan Diaz recognizes early achievement and future promise in Fiction, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. His fiction reconstructs movement, solitude, and the mythic West, using historical forms to examine immigrant isolation and the blank spaces inside American myth.

The award recognizes Hernan Diaz's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Merritt Tierce recognizes early achievement and future promise in Fiction, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. Her fiction writes about labor, desire, motherhood, and self-destruction with a hard clarity, refusing easy redemption while exposing the pressures of economically precarious life.

The award recognizes Merritt Tierce's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Nafissa Thompson-Spires recognizes early achievement and future promise in Fiction, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. Her stories mix satire and unease to explore Black middle-class life, education, online culture, and racial performance in contemporary America.

The award recognizes Nafissa Thompson-Spires's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Nadia Owusu recognizes early achievement and future promise in Nonfiction, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. Her nonfiction moves between memory and geography to write about a life of displacement, family rupture, loss, and the search for belonging.

The award recognizes Nadia Owusu's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Terese Marie Mailhot recognizes early achievement and future promise in Nonfiction, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. Her nonfiction writes Indigenous womanhood, trauma, family, and love through fragmented, lyrical prose marked by urgency.

The award recognizes Terese Marie Mailhot's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Kayleb Rae Candrilli recognizes early achievement and future promise in Poetry, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. Their poems join gender, body, labor, and the memory of place through intimate directness and sharply made images.

The award recognizes Kayleb Rae Candrilli's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Tyree Daye recognizes early achievement and future promise in Poetry, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. His poetry summons Southern landscapes, family, loss, and Black memory with musicality and a prayer-like concentration.

The award recognizes Tyree Daye's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

The 2019 Whiting Award for Vanessa Angélica Villarreal recognizes early achievement and future promise in Poetry, not a single awarded book. The object of recognition is the writer's body of work, especially the thematic and formal force visible in published or staged works. Her poetry builds immigrant family history, Chicana embodiment, language, and desire through layered forms and fierce lyric energy.

The award recognizes Vanessa Angélica Villarreal's writing as a body of work rather than one specific book.

A Whiting Award record recognizing Nathan Alan Davis's body of work as a playwright.

The award recognizes his work as a playwright rather than a single book.

A Whiting Award record recognizing Hansol Jung's body of work as a playwright.

The award recognizes her work as a playwright rather than a single book.

A Whiting Award record recognizing Antoinette Nwandu's body of work as a playwright.

The award recognizes her work as a playwright rather than a single book.

A Whiting Award record recognizing Brontez Purnell's body of work as a writer.

The award recognizes his work as a writer rather than a single book.

A Whiting Award record recognizing Patrick Cottrell's body of work as a novelist.

The award recognizes his work as a novelist rather than a single book.

A profile of Anne Boyer's writing career, with expression and memory at its center and society in view.

A writer's gaze comes into focus through the work.

A profile of Esme Weijun Wang's writing career, with expression and memory at its center and society in view.

A writer's gaze comes into focus through the work.

A profile of Weike Wang's writing career, with expression and memory at its center and society in view.

A writer's gaze comes into focus through the work.

A profile of Rickey Laurentiis's writing career, with expression and memory at its center and society in view.

A writer's gaze comes into focus through the work.

A profile of Tommy Pico's writing career, with expression and memory at its center and society in view.

A writer's gaze comes into focus through the work.

A darkly comic play about a woman caring for her ill father while trying to reckon with her own emptiness and loneliness.

Fantasy and reality blur as the play examines care, intimacy, and survival.

A play in which language, desire, class, and love collide, exposing the instability of family and intimacy.

Play with language and emotional pressure give family scenes a sharp outline.

A play about an artist who hires a woman to perform a persona, exposing distortions in representation and power.

Transactions around race, gender, and art unravel with both humor and unease.

A debut novel that tracks cleaning work, addiction, and a shifting self-image with strange lightness and humor.

A chaotic life is rendered with dry humor and warm observation.

A novel that uses a research institute and one family to expose questions of race, language, and assimilation.

An experiment involving a chimpanzee lays bare the wounds inside a family.

A novel built around an uneven love affair and an airport detention, tracing power imbalances across two very different settings.

A two-part structure shifts between intimacy and state power.

A novel about Stanford graduates whose friendships and ambitions reveal the anxieties and absurdities of millennial life.

Love, work, and class consciousness unwind in the conversations of young urban adults.

A nonfiction book that uses experience in the Border Patrol to examine violence and ethics on both sides of the border.

The work of guarding a border eventually brings the border inside the self.

A poetry collection that folds in dispersion, Blackness, code-switching, and a feminist eye while unsettling poetic form.

A voice that is sharp, layered, and often unpredictable tries to re-stitch a dispersed world.

A poetry collection that confronts desire, violence, racism, and homophobia with urban pressure and force.

Polyphonic poems blur the line between harming and being harmed.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a playwright.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a novelist.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a novelist.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a novelist.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a nonfiction writer.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a nonfiction writer.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a poet.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a poet.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a poet.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.

Recognized for early-career achievement and clear promise as a poet.

The recognition centers on the writer’s body of work rather than a single book.