Stephen Eoannou won the fiction award in the 2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award Program for his short story collection Muscle Cars, which has central themes of “loss, leaving, and of economic realities hitting home.” Growing up in Buffalo, NY, in the 1970s...
Charlotte Gullick is inspired “by the stories of people who don’t often see themselves reflected in the dominant culture,” she says. “For me, this often means rural folks.” More than one reviewer has aligned Gullick’s work with Steinbeck’s in terms of her...
The Four Words for Home, a memoir by Angie Chuang, was a Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards winner in 2011. The book also won the 2013 Willow Books Literature Awards grand prize in 2013 and was published by Willow’s imprint, Aquarius Press, in 2014. The story is...
Ira Sukrungruang won the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award in 2000 for his memoir, Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, in which he both humorously and painfully conveys what it was like growing up as a first-generation American with Thai parents,...
In 2007, Genaro K? Lý Smith took second place in the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Program for his short story, “Dailies.” Since then, he has published two books, the first of which, The Land Baron’s Sun: The Story of Lý Loc and His Seven Wives, was...
