Danielle Deulen Wins AWP Nonfiction Prize

Our former Institute fellow, Danielle Cadena Deulen, who already has a poetry collection forthcoming now gives us a second book to look forward to. As the winner of the AWP 2010 Award Series in Creative Nonfiction, Danielle will have her collection of essays, The Riots, published by the University of Georgia Press.

Here's AWP's Announcement:

The AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction
Winner: Danielle Cadena Deulen
The Riots, University of Georgia Press

Luis Albert Urrea, Judge: There are moments of transcendent prose in this manuscript that elevates it far beyond what we might expect of it at first blush. It manages to become more profound, and more beautiful, the more desperate and tragic its trajectory. Finally, it is a triumph of wisdom and great art.

Danielle Cadena Deulen is an essayist and poet. Her first collection of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize and will be published with the University of Arkansas Press in spring 2011. Formerly, she was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow with the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has received three Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry prizes (2007 , 2008, 2010) and a Virginia Center for Creative Arts fellowship. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Smartish Pace, Best New Poets 2009, and the Indiana Review, and her essays are forthcoming in the Iowa Review and American Literary Review. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, and is currently a PhD candidate in English at the University of Utah.