Lidia Yuknavitch at the 2012 CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium / photo by Robert Hill Long.
Congratulations are due UO graduate Lidia Yuknavitch, who helped inaugurate the CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium in May 2012 as a featured author at MemoirFest. Lidia, who earned her PhD in English at the University of Oregon, is the winner of two Oregon Book Awards, announced on April 11, 2016.
KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland
The Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)
READERS CHOICE AWARD
Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland
The Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)
2016 Oregon Book Award winners
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW AWARD FOR CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Barbara Kerley of Portland
With a Friend by Your Side (National Geographic Society)
LESLIE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE
Brian Doyle of Lake Oswego
Martin Marten (St. Martin’s Press)
FRANCES FULLER VICTOR AWARD FOR GENERAL NONFICTION
David Biespiel of Portland
A Long High Whistle (Antilever Press)
SARAH WINNEMUCCA AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION
Kate Carroll de Gutes of Portland
Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (Ovenbird Books)
AWARD FOR GRAPHIC LITERATURE
Ariel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke of Portland
The Zoo Box (First Second Books)
STAFFORD/HALL AWARD FOR POETRY
Carl Adamshick of Portland
Saint Friend (McSweeney’s)
KEN KESEY AWARD FOR FICTION
Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland
The Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)
READERS CHOICE AWARD
Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland
The Small Backs of Children (HarperCollins)
SPECIAL AWARDS:
STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Doug Spangle of Portland
WALT MOREY YOUNG READERS LITERARY LEGACY AWARD
Curtis Kiefer of Philomath
