the FINALISTS
Congratulations to the 2011 finalists in the Emerging Author category! These authors will participate in the Indy Author Fair public programs on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the Central Library in downtown Indianapolis. Following the days festivities, authors will be honored at the Award Dinner that evening, where a winner in the Emerging Author category will be named.
Emerging Finalists
Aaron Michael Morales
Morales is an associate professor of English and gender studies at Indiana State University. His first novel, “Drowning Tucson” (2010)—cited by Esquire as “the bleakly human debut of the new Bukowski”—was named a “Top Five Fiction Debut” by Poets & Writers. Other books include a chapbook of short fiction, titled, “From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert” (2008), and a textbook, “The American Mashup” (2011). He edits fiction for Grasslands Review and reviews books for Latino Poetry Review and Multicultural Review. He is completing his second novel, “Eat Your Children”.
http://aaronmichaelmorales.com
Bich Minh Nguyen
Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1974. When she was 8 months old, her family fled the fall of Saigon, eventually settling in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Michigan and currently teaches creative nonfiction, fiction, and Asian-American Literature at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Nguyen’s novel “Short Girls” (Viking Penguin) was named an American Book Award winner in fiction and a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal. Her memoir-in-essays, “Stealing Buddha’s Dinner” (Viking Penguin) received the PEN/Jerard Award from the PEN American Center and was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2007, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book, and an Asian American Literature Award finalist. Nguyen’s work has also appeared in such publications as Gourmet magazine, Dream Me Home Safely, Writers on Growing up in America, and Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose. Nguyen and her husband, Shreve, have coedited three anthologies: “30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years” (Penguin Academic); “Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye” (Longman); and “The Contemporary American Short Story” (Longman).
http://www.bichminhnguyen.com
Congratulations to all of the past finalists for the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award. These authors represent some of the best that Indiana literature has to offer, and are truly deserving of recognition.
Click here for a complete list of past winners and finalists.
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