# Oregon Book Award

The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by the Portland, Oregon, United States–based organization Literary Arts, Inc. to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers."
Oregon Book Award was founded in 1987 by Brian Booth and Oregon Institute for Literary Arts (OILA). In 1993, Literary Arts, Inc., a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of Oregonians through language and literature, joined with the OILA and continued to support and promote Oregon's authors with the book awards and Oregon Literary Fellowships. Award winners are selected based solely on literary merit by out-of-state judges who change each year.
In 2005, the award ceremony was moved from Portland's Scottish Rite Center to the Wonder Ballroom, in an effort to make it more lively and fun. Since 2009, the awards ceremony has been held at the Gerding Theatre at the Armory, the home of Portland Center Stage.

## Recipients
### Book Awards
#### Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

| Year | Book | Author |
| 1987 | Seal Rock | John Haislip |
| 1988 | Singing the Mozart Requiem | Ingrid Wendt |
| 1989 | The Admiration's | Lex Runciman |
| 1990 | Dreamer | Primus St. John |
| 1990 | Toluca Street | Maxine Scates |
| 1991 | Psyche Drives the Coast | Sharon Doubiago |
| 1992 | Selected Poems | Vern Rutsala |
| 1993 | A Book of Other Days | Lisa M. Steinman |
| 1994 | Lauds | Tom Crawford |
| 1995 | Poem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone | James Grabill |
| 1996 | Journeyman's Wages | Clemens Starck |
| 1997 | Drawing the Line | Lawson Fusao Inada |
| 1998 | Cocktails with Brueghel at the Museum Café | Sandra Stone |
| 1999 | Ruining the Picture | Pimone Triplett |
| 2000 | Passion | Judith Montgomery |
| 2001 | The Evening Light | Floyd Skloot |
| 2002 | In The Margins Of The World | Willa Schneberg |
| 2003 | The Play of Dark and Light | Rita Ott Ramstad |
| 2004 | Men Holding Eggs | Henry Hughes |
| 2005 | Leaving | Laton Carter |
| 2006 | Facts About the Moon | Dorianne Laux |
| 2007 | The Sky Position | Tom Blood |
| 2008 | A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth | Penelope Scambly Schott |
| 2009/2010 | All-American Poem | Matthew Dickman |
| 2011 | The Book of Men and Women | David Biespiel |
| 2012 | Curses And Wishes | Carl Adamshick |
| 2013 | Fjords Vol. 1 | Zachary Schomburg |
| 2014 | Incarnadine | Mary Szybist |
| 2015 | Sorrow Arrow | Emily Kendal Frey |
| 2016 | Saint Friend | Carl Adamshick |
| 2017 | When We Were Birds | Joe Wilkins |
| 2018 | Field Theories | Samiya Bashir |
| 2019 | Small Gods | Matthew Minicucci |
| 2020 | Spectra | Ashley Toliver |
| 2021 | Hope of Stones | Anna Elkins |
| 2022 | Instrument | Dao Strom |
| 2023 | Mouth, Sugar, and Smoke | Eric Tran |
| 2024 | Chorus | Daniela Naomi Molnar |

#### Award for Fiction

| Year | Book | Author |
| 1987 | Resurrectionists | Russell Working |
| 1988 | Within Normal Limits | Todd Grimson |
| 1989 | Cardinal Numbers | Hob Broun |
| 1990 | The Jump-off Creek | Molly Gloss |
| 1991 | (no award given) |
| 1992 | Searoad | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 1993 | Dreams Like Thunder | Diane Simmons |
| 1994 | Arabian Jazz | Diana Abu-Jaber |
| 1995 | Native Speaker | Chang-Rae Lee |
| 1996 | What Falls Away | Tracy Daugherty |
| 1997 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk |
| 1998 | The Ugliest House in the World | Peter Ho Davies |
| 1999 | Like Never Before | Ehud Havazelet |
| 2000 | Storm Riders | Craig Lesley |
| 2001 | Throwing Knives | Molly Best Tinsley |
| 2002 | The Necessary Grace to Fall: Stories | Gina Ochsner |

##### Ken Kesey Award for the Novel

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2003 | His Mother's Son | Cai Emmons |
| 2004 | Axeman's Jazz | Tracy Daugherty |
| 2005 | How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship, and Musical Theater | Marc Acito |
| 2006 | The Best People in the World: A Novel | Justin Tussing |
| 2007 | Twenty Questions | Alison Clement |

##### Ken Kesey Award for Fiction

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2008 | Bearing the Body | Ehud Havazelet |
| 2009/2010 | Livability: Stories | Jon Raymond |
| 2011 | Lean on Pete | Willy Vlautin |
| 2012 | The Sisters Brothers | Patrick deWitt |
| 2013 | Shards | Ismet Prcic |
| 2014 | The Unreal and The Real: Collected Stories, Vols. 1 and 2 | Ursula K. Le Guin |
| 2015 | The Revolution of Every Day | Cari Luna |
| 2016 | The Small Backs of Children | Lidia Yuknavitch |
| 2017 | A Great Length of Time | Joyce Cherry Cresswell |
| 2018 | American War | Omar El Akkad |
| 2019 | Red Clocks | Leni Zumas |
| 2020 | No God like the Mother | Kesha Ajọsẹ Fisher |
| 2021 | The Great Offshore Grounds | Vanessa Veselka |
| 2022 | What Strange Paradise | Omar El Akkad |
| 2023 | Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories | Sindya Bhanoo |
| 2024 | The Librarianist | Patrick deWitt |

##### H. L. Davis Award for Short Fiction

| Year | Book | Author |
| 1998 | The Ugliest House in the World | Peter Ho Davies |
| 1999 | Like Never Before | Ehud Havazelet |
| 2000 | Storm Riders | Craig Lesley |
| 2001 | Throwing Knives | Molly Best Tinsley |
| 2002 | The Necessary Grace to Fall | Gina Ochsner |
| 2003 | It Takes a Worried Man | Tracy Daugherty |
| 2004 | Saving Stanley | Scott Nadelson |
| 2005 | Resistance | Barry Lopez |
| 2006 | People I Wanted to Be | Gina Ochsner |
| 2007 | The Dead Fish Museum | Charles D'Ambrosio |

#### Award for Literary Nonfiction

| Year | Book | Author |
| 1987 | Arctic Dreams | Barry Lopez |
| 1988 | Faces of a Reservation | Cynthia Stowell |
| 1989 | A Golden Journey | Luther Cressman |
| 1990 | Baja Journey | Robin Carey |
| 1991 | Wings for My Flight / My Country, My Right to Serve | Marcy Cottrell Houle / Mary Ann Humphrey (tie) |
| 1992 | No Duty to Retreat | Richard M. Brown |
| 1993 | The Trail Home | John Daniel |
| 1994 | Stubborn Twig | Lauren Kessler |
| 1995 | Voyage of a Summer Sun | Robin Cody |
| 1996 | Volcano | Garrett Hongo |
| 1997 | Looking After | John Daniel |
| 1998 | Making It Home | Lars Nordström |
| 1999 | The Left Hand of Eden | William Ashworth |
| 2000 | The Night Gardener | Marjorie Sandor |
| 2001 | When Broken Glass Floats | Chanrithy Him |
| 2002 | My Wars Are Laid Away in Books | Alfred Habegger |

##### Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2003 | Dispatches and Dictators: Ralph Barnes for the Herald Tribune | Barbara S. Mahoney |
| 2004 | In Search of Ancient Oregon | Ellen Morris Bishop |
| 2005 | Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown | James C. Mohr |
| 2006 | Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan | Andrew Bernstein |
| 2007 | Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America | Garrett Epps |
| 2008 | One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity | Steven W. Bender |
| 2009/2010 | Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme | Tracy Daugherty |
| 2011 | Savages and Scoundrels | Paul VanDevelder |
| 2012 | Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration Of The Empire's 2600th Anniversary | Kenneth J. Ruoff |
| 2013 | The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret | Kent Hartman |
| 2014 | Duel with the Devil | Paul Collins |
| 2015 | Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self | Alex Tizon |
| 2016 | A Long High Whistle | David Biespiel |
| 2017 | The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion | Tracy Daugherty |
| 2018 | Fish Market | Lee van der Voo |
| 2019 | Dangerous Subjects: James D. Saules and the Rise of Black Exclusion in Oregon | Kenneth R. Coleman |
| 2020 | Aloha Rodeo: Three Hawaiian Cowboys, the World’s Greatest Rodeo, and a Hidden History of the American West | David Wolman and Julian Smith |
| 2021 | The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America | Nicholas Buccola |
| 2022 | The Wretched Atom: America’s Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology | Jacob Darwin Hamblin |
| 2023 | Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home | Lauren Kessler |
| 2024 | Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest | Josephine Woolington |

##### Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2003 | Providence of a Sparrow | Chris Chester |
| 2003 | In The Shadow Of Memory | Floyd Skloot |
| 2004 | The Stuff of Life | Karen Karbo |
| 2005 | The Pine Island Paradox | Kathleen Dean Moore |
| 2006 | When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation | George W. Aguilar |
| 2007 | The Things Between Us | Lee Montgomery |
| 2008 | Dancing with Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's | Lauren Kessler |
| 2009/2010 | Convictions: A Prosecutor’s Battles Against Mafia Killers, Drug Kingpins, and Enron Thieves | John Kroger |
| 2011 | The Far Corner | John Daniel |
| 2012 | The Shape Of The Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, And The Stories We Inherit | George Estreich |
| 2013 | Crazy Enough | Storm Large |
| 2014 | Wedlocked | Jay Ponteri |
| 2015 | The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld | Justin Hocking |
| 2016 | Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear | Kate Carroll de Gutes |
| 2017 | Angels With Dirty Faces | Walidah Imarisha |
| 2018 | Animals Strike Curious Poses | Elena Passarello |
| 2019 | The Gospel of Trees | Apricot Irving |
| 2020 | Anxious Attachments | Beth Alvarado |
| 2021 | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country | Sierra Crane Murdoch |
| 2022 | Plastic: An Autobiography | Allison Cobb |
| 2023 | Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery | Casey Parks |
| 2024 | Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear | Erica Berry |

#### Angus L. Bowmer Award for Drama

| Year | Book | Author |
| 1988 | The Second Coming of Joan of Arc | Carolyn Gage |
| 1989 | Holding Patterns | Dan Duling |
| 1990 | Five Minute Wars | Sharon Whitney |
| 1992 | The Disappearance and Death of Amelia Earhart | E. J. Westlake |
| 1994 | A Pirate's Lullaby | Jessica Litwak |
| 1996 | Picasso in the Backseat | Dmae Roberts |
| 1997 | Drawing Down Clio | Doug Baldwin |
| 1998 | Freud's Girls | Dori Appel |
| 1999 | The Lunatic Within | Dori Appel |
| 2000 | Wonderbroads | Melinda Pittman |
| 2001 | Lost and Found | Dori Appel |
| 2004 | Vitriol and Violets | Shelly Lipkin, Louanne Moldovan, and Sherry Lamoreaux |
| 2006 | Arthur's Dreams | Richard Moeschl |
| 2008 | Lost Wavelengths | Steve Patterson |
| 2011 | The Lost Boy | Susan Mach |
| 2013 | Antarktikos | Andrea Stolowitz |
| 2015 | Ithaka | Andrea Stolowitz |
| 2017 | Words That Burn | Cindy Williams Gutiérrez |
| 2019 | Successful Strategies | Andrea Stolowitz |
| 2021 | You Cannot Undo This Action | Conor Eifler |
| 2023 | The Storyteller | Sara Jean Accuardi |

#### Award for Young Readers Literature

| Year | Book | Author |
| 1990 | Dragon's Milk | Susan Fletcher |
| 1991 | Four Dollars and Fifty Cents | Eric Kimmel |
| 1992 | The Striped Ships | Eloise McGraw |
| 1993 | Blue Skin of the Sea | Graham Salisbury |
| 1994 | Make Lemonade | Virginia Euwer Wolff |
| 1995 | Under the Blood Red Sun | Graham Salisbury |
| 1996 | Journey of the Red Wolf | Roland Smith |
| 1997 | The Moorchild | Eloise McGraw |
| 1998 | Shark Bait | Graham Salisbury |
| 1999 | A Voice from the Border | Pamela Smith Hill |
| 2000 | The Gate in the Wall | Ellen Howard |
| 2001 | True Believer | Virginia Euwer Wolff |

##### Eloise Jarvis McGraw Award for Children's Literature

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2003 | Three Samurai Cats | Eric Kimmel |
| 2004 | Luba | Michelle McCann |
| 2005 | Cave Paintings to Picasso | Henry Sayre |
| 2006 | Tour America | Diane Siebert |
| 2007 | Not in Room 204 | Shannon Riggs |
| 2008 | A Day With No Crayons | Elizabeth Rusch |
| 2009/2010 | Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-discoverer of the North Pole | Deborah Hopkinson |
| 2011 | Calvin Coconut: The Zippy Fix | Graham Salisbury |
| 2012 | Calvin Coconut: Hero Of Hawaii | Graham Salisbury |
| 2013 | Drawing From Memory | Allen Say |
| 2014 | Calvin Coconut: Extra Famous | Graham Salisbury |
| 2015 | Whistle in the Dark | Susan Hill Long |
| 2016 | With a Friend by Your Side | Barbara Kerley |
| 2017 | Hannah and Sugar | Kate Berube |
| 2018 | The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan | Patricia Bailey |
| 2019 | The Turning | Emily Whitman |
| 2020 | Lowriders: Blast from the Past | Cathy Camper |
| 2021 | A Game of Fox and Squirrels | Jenn Reese |
| 2022 | Taylor Before and After | Jennie Englund |
| 2023 | Friends Are Friends, Forever | Dane Liu |
| 2024 | Too Early | Nora Ericson |

##### Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2002 | Empress of the World | Sara Ryan |
| 2003 | The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed | Heather Vogel Frederick |
| 2004 | Deep | Susanna Vance |
| 2005 | A Heart for Any Fate | Linda Crew |
| 2006 | Eyes of the Emperor | Graham Salisbury |
| 2007 | Alphabet of Dreams | Susan Fletcher |
| 2008 | The Rules for Hearts | Sara Ryan |
| 2008 | A Taste for Rabbit | Linda Zuckerman |
| 2009/2010 | I.Q. Book One: Independence Hall | Roland Smith |
| 2011 | The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys | Scott William Carter |
| 2012 | Wildwing | Emily Whitman |
| 2013 | Blue Thread | Ruth Tenzer Feldman |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything | Kari Luna |
| 2015 | The Body In the Woods | April Henry |
| 2016 | Martin Marten | Brian Doyle |
| 2017 | Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark | West Linn |
| 2018 | Strange the Dreamer | Laini Taylor |
| 2019 | The Wicked Deep | Shea Ernshaw |
| 2020 | How I Became A Spy: A Mystery of WWII London | Deborah Hopkinson |
| 2021 | The Sullivan Sisters | Kathryn Ormsbee |
| 2022 | The Dead and the Dark | Courtney Gould |
| 2023 | Dream, Annie, Dream | Waka T. Brown |
| 2024 | The Very Unfortunate Wish of Melony Yoshimura | Waka T. Brown |

#### Pacific Northwest College of Art Graphic Literature Award

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2012 | Footnotes in Gaza | Joe Sacco |
| 2014 | Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite | Barry Deutsch |
| 2016 | The Zoo Box | Ariel Cohn and Aron Nels Steinke |
| 2018 | Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home | Nicole J. Georges |
| 2020 | Penny Nichols | Greg Means and M. K. Reed |
| 2022 | Trespassers | Breena Bard |
| 2024 | The Faint of Heart | Kerilynn Wilson |

#### Readers Choice Award

| Year | Book | Author |
| 2011 | Lean on Pete | Willy Vlautin |
| 2012 | The Chronology Of Water | Lidia Yuknavitch |
| 2013 | Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2014 | The Orchardist | Amanda Coplin |
| 2015 | The Free | Willy Vlautin |
| 2016 | The Small Backs of Children: A Novel | Lidia Yuknavitch |
| 2017 | A Series of Small Maneuvers | Eliot Treichel |
| 2018 | Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home | Nicole J. Georges |
| 2019 | Ladder to the Light | Beth Wood |

### Special Awards

    1988: William Everson
    1989: George Venn
    1990: Mary Barnard
    1991: Don James
    1992: Paul Pintarich
    1994: Ralph Friedman
    1995: Wilma Erwin

#### Charles Erskine Scott Wood Distinguished Writer Award

    1987: George Belknap
    1988: Dorothy Johansen
    1989: Vi Gale
    1990: Janet Stevenson
    1991: Walt Morey
    1992: Terence O'Donnell
    1993: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
    1994: Earl Pomeroy
    1995: Damon Knight
    1996: Eloise McGraw
    1998: Priscilla Knuth
    1999: Ken Kesey
    2003: George Hitchcock
    2006: Ursula K. Le Guin
    2008: Barry Lopez
    2014: Vern Rutsala
    2015: Ralph Salisbury
    2017: Jarold Ramsey
    2020: Lawson Fusao Inada
    2021: Molly Gloss

#### Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award

    1987: Northwest Review
    1988: Calyx, A Journal of Art & Literature
    1989: Katharine McCanna
    1990: Sandra Williams
    1991: Walt Curtis
    1992: Clyde Rice
    1993: Penny Avila
    1994: George Venn
    1995: Tom Ferte
    1996: Brian Booth
    1997: Ruth Gundle & Judith Barrington
    1998: Dennis & Linny Stovall
    1999: Peter Sears
    2000: Rich Wandschneider
    2001: Erik Muller
    2002: Carla Perry
    2003: David Hedges
    2004: David Milholland
    2005: Barbara LaMorticella
    2006: Paulann Petersen
    2007: Kim Stafford
    2008: Marlene Howard
    2009: Matt Love
    2011: John Laursen
    2013: Larry Colton
    2014: Vince & Patty Wixon
    2015: Tom Spanbauer
    2016: Douglas Spangle
    2017: The Independent Publishing Resource Center
    2018: Tracey Daugherty and Marjorie Sandor
    2019: José González
    2020: Write Around Portland
    2021: Elizabeth Lyon
    2023: Gary Miranda
    2024: Ellen Waterston

#### Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award

    1998: Barbara J. McKillip
    1999: Claudia Jones
    2000: Cathy Schneider
    2001: Oregon advisory boards of First Book
    2002: Ready to Learn
    2003: Jerry Isom
    2004: Patricia R. Gallagher
    2005: Carol Brown
    2006: John Monteverde
    2007: Mark Mizell
    2008: Young Writers Association
    2009: The Dove Lewis Read to the Dogs Program
    2011: The Children's Book Bank
    2012: Ulrich Hardt
    2013: Oregon Battle of the Books
    2014: Ellen Fader
    2015: Jann Tankersley
    2016: Curtis Kiefer
    2017: The SMART (Start Making A Reader Today) Program
    2018: Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
    2020: Reading Results
    2021: PlayWrite, Inc.
    2023: Dawn Babb Prochovnic

### Literary Fellowships
#### C. Hamilton Bailey Fellowship in Poetry

    2018: Matthew Minicucci
    2019: Pamela K. Santos
    2020: Alicia Jo Rabins
    2021: Amy Miller

#### Edna L. Homes Fellowship in Young Readers

    2018: Erica A. Briggs
    2019: Amy Baskin
    2020: Kelly Garrett
    2021: Shana Targosz

#### Fellowship in Fiction

    2018: Omar El Akkad and Adair V

#### Fellowship in Poetry

    2018: manuel arturo abreu, Danielle Cadena Deulen, and Milo R. Muise

#### Fellowship in Publishing

    2018: Clackamas Literary Review and Pacifica: Poetry International
    2019: Atelier 26 Books and Opossum: A Literary Marsupial
    2020: Fonograf Editions and Octopus Books
    2021: Forest Avenue Press and Northwest Review

#### Fellowship in Nonfiction

    2018: Elizabeth Enslin, Susan Shepard, and Brian Trapp
    2019: Sterling Cunio and Justin Taylor
    2020: Garet Lahvis

#### Laurell Swails and Donald Monroe Memorial Fellowship in Fiction

    2018: Takashi L. Kendrick and Mika Tanner
    2019: Ana-Maurine Lara and Chris Stuck
    2020: Cynthia L. Brown and Taylor Koekkoek
    2021: Pedro Hoffmeister and Emily Woodworth

#### Leslie Bradshaw Fellowship

    2018: Alberto Yáñez (for nonfiction)
    2019: Chelsea Biondolillo (for nonfiction)
    2020: Rachael Carnes (for drama)
    2021: Sara Jean Accuardi (for drama)

#### Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship

    2018: Jacob Aiello and Jake Vermaas
    2019: Karen Luper and Marcus Lund
    2020: Marjorie Celona and Gabriel Urza

#### Oregon Literary Career Fellowship

    2020: Beth Alvarado and Dao Strom
    2021: Annie Sheppard and Sandy Tanaka

#### Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship

    2019: Jennifer Perrine
    2021: Alyssa Ogi

#### Walt Morey Fellowship

    2018: Cindy Baldwin (for drama)
    2019: Stacy Brewster (for drama)
    2020: Jamie Cooper (for poetry)
    2021: Scott Korb (for nonfiction)

#### Women Writers Fellowship

    2018: Naomi Ulsted
    2019: Natalie Hirt
    2020: Eliza Rotterman
    2021: A. M. Rosales

#### Writers of Color Fellowship

    2018: Reema Zaman
    2019: Christopher Rose
    2020: Olufunke Grace Bankole
    2021: Kesha Ajose-Fisher