ROBERT PENN WARREN AWARD FOR FICTION

Liza Wieland, 2017 Recipient

Liza Wieland has published four novels, Land of Enchantment, A Watch of Nightingales, Bombshell, and The Names of the Lost, and three collections of short fiction, Quickening, You Can Sleep While I Drive, and Discovering America, as well as a book of poems, Near Alcatraz. Land of Enchantment was a longlist finalist for both the Lascaux Prize and the Chautauqua Prize.  A Watch of Nightingales won the Michigan Literary Fiction Prize. Bombshell was an alternate selection for The Book of the Month Club. The Names of the Lost won the Best First Novel prize fro the Dictionary of Literary Biography.    Quickening was a finalist for the Balcones Prize for short fiction. She has received two Pushcart Prizes and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council.  She has just been awarded the Robert Penn Warren Prize for fiction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She earned a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She teaches creative writing at East Carolina University and currently serves as an associate dean in the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences.

PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS:

Steve Yarbrough, 2015

Michael Knight, 2013

Elizabeth Cox, 2011

Moira Crone, 2009

Dorothy Allison, 2007
Donald Harrington, 2003

Mary Hood, 2001

Barry Hannah, 1999

Allen Wier, 1997

Madison Smartt Bell, 1995

Cormac McCarthy, 1993

Lee Smith, 1991