GEORGE GARRETT NEW WRITING AWARD

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, 2020 recipient

   Margaret Wilkerson Sexton debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was a National Book Award Nominee in 2017, winner of the Crook’s Corner Prize, Winner of the first Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, and a New York Times Notable Book. Her new book The Revisioners, is a National Bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. Her work has also been published in The New York Times Book Review, Oprah.com, Lenny Letter, and The Massachusetts Review. Sexton was born in New Orleans and currently lives in the Bay Area of California.  

https://margaretwilkersonsexton.com/

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:

Tanya J. Jarrett, 2017

Megan Mayhew Bergman, novels and essays

 2015

Rose McLarney, poetry, 2013

James Hall, poetry,  2011

Kevin McFadden, poetry, 2009

Jennifer Grotz, poetry, 2007

Charlotte Matthews, poetry, 2007

Thorpe Moeckel, poetry, 2005

Julia Johnson, poetry, 2003