THE
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY JOHN
GARDNER
FICTION BOOK AWARD 2003
WINNER:
Laura Valeri, The Kinds of Things Saints Do
(University of Iowa Press)
Judge: ENID SHOMER
“Laura Valeri's fiction offers all the virtues and pleasures of a high stakes poker game. A sublime tension compels us forward in stories where everything rides on the next word and the winnings are the richest imaginable--human love and happiness.”
ENID SHOMER'S first collection of stories, Imaginary Men, received both the Iowa Fiction Prize and the LSU/Southern Review Prize. She is the author of four books of poetry and the Poetry Series Editor for the University of Arkansas Press; her stories and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Best New Stories from the South, Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, New Criterion, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and many other magazines. Shomer has lived in Florida for most of her life, but is now residing in New York City where she is currently finishing a second book of stories.
FINALISTS
James McBride for Miracle at St. Anna (Riverhead Books)
John Salter for Alberta Clipper (Livingston Press)
Andrew Geyer for Whispers in Dust and Bone (Texas Tech University Press)
Martin Pousson for No Place, Louisiana (Riverhead Books)
The Binghamton
University John Gardner Fiction Book Award is Sponsored by
The Creative Writing Program
at Binghamton University—State University of New York
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updated 6/13/03