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 […]