The 2019 Whiting Award winners were announced in a ceremony on Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are: Fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Heads of the Colored People, 37 Ink) Merritt Tierce (Love Me Back, Anchor) Hernan Diaz (In the Distance, Coffee House) Nonfiction Nadia Owusu (Aftershocks, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster) Terese Marie Mailhot (Heart Berries, Counterpoint) Poetry Kayleb Rae Candrilli (What Runs Over, YesYes Books) Tyree Daye (River Hymns, American Poetry Review) Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Beast Meridian, Noemi Press) Drama Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) Lauren Yee (Cambodian Rock Band)
