2019/20 Winner & Finalists

 Winner: Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat was the first winner of The Story Prize for The Dew Breaker. She is also the author of numerous books, including The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist; Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book; Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah’s Book Club selection; and Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award finalist. A 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” grant, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami.

Finalist: Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction and Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. Sabrina & Corina has been selected as a campus one-read by the University of Colorado and Regis University. Fajardo-Anstine is the 2019 recipient of the Denver Mayor’s Award for Global Impact in the Arts. Her fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the University of Wyoming and is from Denver, Colorado.

Finalist: Grand Union by Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW, and Swing Time, as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia, and two collections of essays, Changing My Mind and Feel Free. She currently lives in New York, where she is a professor of fiction at New York University. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. Grand Union is her first collection of short stories.

The Story Prize Spotlight Award: The Trojan War Museum by Ayşe Papatya Bucak

Ayşe Papatya Bucak’s short fiction has been selected for the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes. She lives in Delray, Florida, where she is an associate professor in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. The Trojan War Museum has been long-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a debut short story collection.

The 2019/20 Story Prize Judges

• Author and librarian Kristen Arnett.

• Publisher Andy Hunter.

• Author Tiphanie Yanique.

Photography by Beowulf Sheehan