2008 American Book Award Winners:

Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America (The Penguin Press)

Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II (Doubleday)

Jonathan Curiel, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots (The New Press)

Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and Lydia T. Black, Anooshi Lingit Aani Ka/Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804 (University of Washington Press)

Maria Mazziotti Gillan, All That Lies Between Us (Guernica Editions Inc.)

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (HarperCollins)

C.S. Giscombe, Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive Press)

Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go: A Novel (TriQuarterly)

L. Luis Lopez, Each Month I Sing (Farolito Press)

Tom Lutz, Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Fae Myenne Ng, Steer Toward Rock (Hyperion)
 
Yuko Taniguchi, The Ocean in the Closet (Coffee House Press)

Lorenzo Thomas, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, editor, Don’t Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition (University of Michigan Press)

Frank B. Wilderson III, Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid (South End Press)

2009 Green Rose Prize. $2,000 and publication of manuscript in 2010 by New Issues Poetry & Prose. Winner: Melinda Markham for Having Cut the Sparrow’s Heart.

Glimmer Train November Very Short Fiction Awards. Publication in Glimmer Train Stories. Winners: 1st Place: $1,200, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig for “Monkeys of the Sea.” 2nd Place: $500, Stephen McCabe for “The Net of Blue Angels.” 3rd Place: $300, Marco Fernando Navarro for“Enough.”