I am so honored and thrilled to be included in this list.
This year’s nominees are a veritable reading rainbow of excellent books, including many that we’ve covered in these pages: De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s In West Mills and Bryan Washington’s Lot in the Gay Fiction category; Jericho Brown’s The Tradition and Franny Choi’s Soft Science in the Poetry categories; and Carmen Maria Machado’sIn the Dream House, Elissa Altman’s Motherland, and T. Kira Madden’s Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls in the Nonfiction categories.