Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Big Other Book Awards!

Delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 Big Other Book Awards!

All the books below are linked to their respective pages at Bookshop. Visit the Big Other Shop there.

Without further ado, here are the winners of the 2022 Big Other Book Awards:

Fiction:
Edie Meidav’s Another Love Discourse (Terra Nova Press)

Nonfiction:
Valerie Hsiung’s To Love an Artist (Essay Press)

Poetry:
Heller Levinson’s Lure (Black Widow Press)

Translation:
Dolores Dorante’s Copy (Wave Books), translated by Robin Myers

Readers’s Choice Award:
Hillary Leftwich’s Aura (Future Tense Books)

Kudos to all of the winners! Kudos, too, to the 2022 Big Other Literary Citizen Awardees: the Hurston/Wright Foundation and Rain Taxi! And kudos to the 2022 Big Other Lifetime Achievement Awardees: Margaret Atwood, Robert Coover, Don DeLillo, Cynthia Ozick, Annie Proulx, Thomas Pynchon, Wole Soyinka, and John Edgar Wideman!

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026). His fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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