2023 Narrative Poetry Award Winner and Finalists
THE 2023 LAURA BOSS NARRATIVE POETRY AWARD WINNER
Miriam Levine is the author of five previous books of poetry and three books of prose. Her winning manuscript, Forget About Sleep, has been published by NYQ Books. Her honors include the Autumn House Poetry Prize and she is a fellow of the NEA, and grantee of the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Levine is Professor emerita at Framingham State University and lives in Florida and New Hampshire. You may find more information about her work at miriamlevine.com
The Publication Celebration for the release of her book includes readings by Miriam Levine and the five finalists. The event is free and open to the public. Event info at NEWS
FINALISTS
Hyland
Emily Hyland’s debut collection, Divorced Business Partners, will be published with Howling Bird Press in October 2024. Her poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Frontier Poetry, and The Hollins Critic, among others. She earned her MFA in poetry and her MA in English education from Brooklyn College. Her cookbook, Emily: The Cookbook, was published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, in 2018. Hyland is the eponymous co-founder of the international restaurant groups Pizza Loves Emily + Emmy Squared Pizza. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she writes and teaches yoga. Her websites include emilyhyland.com and emmysquaredpizza.com
Kennedy-Nolle
A graduate of Vassar College, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle received an MFA from the Writers’ Workshop as well as a doctoral degree in nineteenth-century American literature from the University of Iowa. She also holds MAs from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and New York University. In addition to scholarly publications, her poetry has appeared in many journals. Her chapbook, Black Wick: Selected Elegies was a semi-finalist for the 2018 Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook Contest. Chosen as the 2020 Chapbook Editor’s Pick by Variant Literature Press, Black Wick: Selected Elegies was published in 2021. Kennedy-Nolle was the winner of the New Ohio Review’s 2021 creative writing contest. Her full-length manuscript, Not Waving, was also chosen as a 2021 and 2022 semifinalist for the University of Wisconsin Poetry Series' Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, and a 2022 semifinalist for the Two Sylvias Press’ Wilder Prize and for the Brick Road Poetry Contest. Recently appointed the Poet Laureate of Sullivan County for 2022-2024, she lives and teaches in New York. Kennedy-Nolle has been awarded a Poet Laureate Fellowship for 2023-2024 from the Academy of American Poets. More at poets.org/poet/sharon-kennedy-nolle and facebook.com/SCPoetReadings/
Lubarsky
Nancy Lubarsky, an educator for over 35 years and a retired school superintendent, has been published in various journals including Exit 13, Lips, Tiferet, Poetica, Stillwater Review and Paterson Literary Review. Nancy received honorable mention in the 2014 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and again in 2016 and 2018. She received an honorable mention from The Anna Davidson Rosenberg Poetry Contest in 2018. Nancy is the author of two books: Tattoos (Finishing Line Press) and The Only Proof (Kelsay Press, a Division of Aldrich Books). Her latest book, Truth to the Rumors (Kelsay Press) will be published in fall 2024.
Mills
Stephen S. Mills (he/they) is the author of the Lambda Award-winning book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices (2012) as well as A History of the Unmarried (2014) and Not Everything Thrown Starts a Revolution (2018) all from Sibling Rivalry Press. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Columbia Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, PANK, The New York Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, The Rumpus, and others. Two of his books were placed on the Over the Rainbow List compiled yearly by the American Library Association. He is also the author of the plays Waiting for Manilow and Is That All There Is? He lives in New York City. Website: stephensmills.com
Webb
Sean Webb has received many honors for his work. Most recently, he won the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Prize for Poetry, the Asheville Poetry Review William Matthews Poetry Prize, and the Gemini Magazine Poetry Open. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and a past Poet Laureate of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, december magazine, The Seattle Review, Nimrod, The Greensboro Review, and two chapbooks, What Cannot Stay Small Forever and The Constant Parades. More: seanwebbpoetry.com
