Grantees:
Azra Liaqat Khan Mona: The Memoir of a Muslim Stripper (Memoir), Washington, D.C. More
Writers of Note:
Anna Louie Sussman Inconceivable: Reproduction in an Age of Uncertainty (Nonfiction), New York City, NY More
Anthony Aycock Just Plain Filthy: The Life and Times of Book Banning's Trial of the Century (Nonfiction), Cary, NC More
Conor Bracken Our Children and the War Grow Big Enough to Learn Each Other's Names (Poetry), Cleveland Heights, OH More
Kim Watson Searching for Zora (Neal Hurston) – The State of Poverty in America Today (Creative Nonfiction), Los Angeles, CA More
Finalists:
Aimee Seiff Christian Nobody’s Daughter: An Adoptee's Memoir of Lost and Found (Memoir), Concord, MA More
Becky Jensen No Man’s Land: Unpacking One Woman’s Worth on the Colorado Trail (Memoir), Rustic, CO More
Elise Atchison Untamed: Living on the Edge of Wildness (Nonfiction), Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, MT More