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Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows, Four Way Books, 2014. Eugenia Leigh is the recipient of awards and fellowships from Poets & Writers Magazine, Kundiman, Rattle, and The Asian American Literary Review.

Last year, the NBCC introduced the new John Leonard Prize for a first book in any genre, named for a founding NBCC member and Sandrof awardee for lifetime achievement. It

Photo Credit: Heather Jacobs Sailing for Ithaca, Black Lawrence Press, 2014. Abayomi Animashaun is also the author of The Giving of Pears. A winner of the Hudson Prize and a

The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew, University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Sue William Silverman’s memoir, Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, is

Photo Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths Reliquaria, University of Nebraska Press, 2014. R.A. Villanueva is the author of Reliquaria, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. He is also the winner

Photo Credit: Meiko Takechi Arquillos Excavation: A Memoir, Future Tense Books, 2014. Wendy C. Ortiz is a writer born and raised in Los Angeles. She wrote a year-long, monthly column

Manning Up: Transsexual Men on Finding Brotherhood, Family & Themselves, Transgress Press, 2014. Mitch Kellaway is a Boston-based transgender writer, editor, and independent researcher. He currently covers queer literature, family

Split, Alice James Books, 2014. Cathy Linh Che is a Vietnamese American poet from Los Angeles. She has received awards from The Asian American Literary Review, Hedgebrook, Kundiman, Lower Manhattan

I Don’t Know Do You, Ampersand Books, 2014. Roberto Montes is the author of the chapbook and web installation, How to Be Sincere in Your Poetry Workshop, available in full