Cohen Award

2010

Andria Nacina Cole, Leaving Women (Fiction) / Spring 2009
Adrian Blevins, The Waning (Poetry) / Winter 2009-10

2009

Tarfia Faizullah, from Interview with a Birangona (Poetry) / Winter 2008-09
Steven Schwartz, Bless Everybody (Fiction) / Fall 2008

2008

Jennifer Grotz, The Life and Times of George Van Den Heuvel (Poetry) / Winter 2007-08
Bret Anthony Johnston, Republican (Fiction) / Fall 2007

2007

Joan Wickersham, The Woodwork (Fiction) / Fall 2006
Victoria Chang, Proof (Poetry) / Spring 2006

2006

Laura Kasischke, If a Stranger Approaches You about Carrying a Foreign Object with You onto the Plane . . . (Fiction) / Fall 2005
R. T. Smith, Dar He (Poetry) / Spring 2005

2005

Xu Xi, Famine (Fiction) / Winter 2004-05
Daisy Fried, Shooting Kinesha (Poetry) / Spring 2004

2004

Rebecca Soppe, The Pantyhose Man (Fiction) / Winter 2003-04
Jane Mead, Was Light,— (Poetry) / Spring 2003

2003

Joan Silber, The High Road (Fiction) / Fall 2002
Scott Withiam, Walk Right In (Poetry) / Spring 2002

2002

Julie Orringer, Pilgrims (Fiction) / Spring 2001
Caroline Finkelstein, Conjecture Number One Thousand (Poetry) / Fall 2001

2001

Elizabeth Graver, The Mourning Door (Fiction) / Fall 2000
Adrian C. Louis, This is the Time of Grasshoppers and All That I See is Dying (Poetry) / Winter 2000

2000

Judith Grossman, How Aliens Think (Fiction) / Spring 1999
Jonah Winter, Sestina: Bob (Poetry) / Spring 1999

1999

Chris Adrian, The Sum of Our Parts (Fiction) / Winter 1998-99
Herman Fong, Grandfather’s Alphabet (Poetry) / Spring 1998

1998

Maxine Swann, Flower Children (Fiction) / Fall 1997
Mark Doty, Mercy on Broadway (Poetry) / Spring 1997

1997

Andrew Sean Greer, Come Live with Me and Be My Love (Fiction) / Fall 1996
Campbell McGrath, Praia dos Orixas (Poetry) / Winter 1996-97

1996

Janet Desaulniers, After Rosa Parks (Fiction) / Winter 1995-96
Louise Glück, Penelope’s Stubbornness (Poetry) / Winter 1995-96

1995

Mary Ruefle, Glory (Poetry) / Winter 1994-95
Marshall N. Klimasewiski, Snowfield (Fiction) / Spring 1994
Charles Baxter, Dysfunctional Narratives, Or “Mistakes Were Made” (Nonfiction) / Fall 1994

1994

Cleopatra Mathis, The Story (Poetry) / Winter 1993-94
Fred Leebron, Lovelock (Fiction) / Fall 1993

1993

Richard Garcia, In the Year 1946 (Poetry) / Spring 1992
Ron Carlson, Blazo (Fiction) / Spring 1992
Debra Spark, The Lure of the West (Nonfiction) / Spring 1992

1992

Tess Gallagher, from The Valentine Elegies (Poetry) / Spring 1991
Richard McCann, Nights of 1990 (Poetry) / Winter 1991-92
Eileen Pollack, Neversink (Fiction) / Fall 1991
Dan Wakefield, Lion: A Memoir of Mark Van Doren (Nonfiction) / Fall 1991

1991

Susan Mitchell, Night Music (Poetry) / Winter 1990-91
Carol Roh-Spaulding, Waiting for Mr. Kim (Fiction) / Fall 1990
William Kittredge, from Hole in the Sky (Nonfiction) / Winter 1990-91

1990

Patricia Traxler, from The Widow’s Words (Poetry) / Winter 1989
Michael Ryan, A Burglary (Poetry) / Spring 1989
Christopher Tilghman, In a Father’s Place (Fiction) / Fall 1989
James Carroll, The Virtue of Writing (Nonfiction) / Fall 1989

1989

Dennis Sampson The Commandment (Poetry) Winter 1988
Josip Novakovich The Apple (Fiction) Fall 1988
Richard Yates R.V. Cassill’s Clem Anderson (Nonfiction) Fall 1988

1988

Carol Frost In Scarecrow’s Garden (Poetry) Spring 1987
Linda Bamber The Time-to-Teach-Jane-Eyre-Again Blues (Fiction) Fall 1987
Gerald Shapiro Evan S. Connell: A Profile (Nonfiction) Fall 1986

1987

Al Young from 22 Moon Poems (Poetry) Fall 1986
Mona Simpson Lonnie Tishman (Fiction) Spring 1986
Phillip Lopate Against Joie de Vivre (Nonfiction) Spring 1986

1986

Tom Sleigh Hope (Poetry) Winter 1984
Gerald Duff Fire Ants (Fiction) Winter 1984
Domenic Stansberry John Gardner: The Return Home (Nonfiction) Fall 1984