{"id":8961,"date":"2025-07-25T18:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/?page_id=8961"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:54:38","slug":"2020-elgin-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/elgin-award\/2020-elgin-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Elgin Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Award Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 Elgin Awards were given for books and chapbooks published in 2018 and 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>52 SFPA members voted on 13 total chapbooks and 42 total full-length books of poetry to determine the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2020 Chair<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AndersonColleen-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-560 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AndersonColleen-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AndersonColleen-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AndersonColleen.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Colleen Anderson<\/strong> is a Canadian author writing fiction and poetry and has had over 170 poems published in such venues as\u00a0<em>Grievous Angel, Polu Texni, The Future Fire, HWA Poetry Showcase<\/em>\u00a0and many others. She is a member of HWA and SFPA and a Canada Council grant recipient for writing. She has performed her work before audiences in the US, UK and Canada and has placed in the Balticon, Rannu, Crucible and Wax poetry competitions. Colleen also enjoys editing and co-edited Canadian anthologies\u00a0<em>Playground of Lost Toys<\/em>\u00a0(Aurora nominated) and\u00a0<em>Tesseracts<\/em>\u00a017, and her solo anthology\u00a0<em>Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland<\/em>\u00a0was published by Exile Books. She has served on both Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award juries, and guest-edited\u00a0<em>Eye to the Telescope.<\/em>\u00a0Her short-story collection,\u00a0<em>A Body of Work<\/em>\u00a0was published by Black Shuck Books, UK. Living in Vancouver, Colleen keeps an eye out for mold monsters and mermaids, and will be guest of honor in 2020 at the Creative Ink Festival.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">colleenanderson.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Menu<\/h2>\n\n\n<nav class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color is-responsive  is-vertical has-text-decoration-underline wp-block-navigation is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-8cf370e7 wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Elgin Submenu\" \n\t\t data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Open menu\" 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wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Category<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>First Place:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alicejamesbooks.org\/bookstore\/soft-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Soft Science<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Franny Choi (Alice James Books, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/softscience.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8962 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Second Place: <\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/605873\/elemental-haiku-by-mary-soon-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elemental Haiku<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Mary Soon Lee (Ten Speed Press, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"103\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/elementalhaiku.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8963 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Third Place (TIE):<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Comfort-Screams-G-Clark\/dp\/1087850444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Comfort of Screams<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 G. O. Clark (Alban Lake Publishing, 2018)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/comfortofscreams.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8964 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Third Place (TIE):<\/strong> <em>The Demeter Diaries<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Marge Simon &amp; Bryan D. Dietrich (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independentlegions.com\/\">Independent Legions<\/a>, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/demeterdiaries.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8965 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapbook Category<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>First Place<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnphilipjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Book of Fly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 John Philip Johnson (Graphic Poetry Press, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/bookoffly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8966 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Second Place<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rattle.com\/chapbooks\/the-last-mastodon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Last Mastodon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Christina Olson (Rattle, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"97\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/lastmastodon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8967 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Third Place:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/boutique.poetshaven.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fragments from the Book of the After-Dead<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Herb Kauderer (The Poet\u2019s Haven, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"111\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fragments.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8968 size-full\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Winner Biographies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ChoiFranny.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-569 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ChoiFranny.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ChoiFranny-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Franny Choi\u00a0<\/strong>is the author of two poetry collections,\u00a0<em>Soft Science<\/em>\u00a0(Alice James Books) and\u00a0<em>Floating, Brilliant, Gone<\/em>\u00a0(Write Bloody Publishing), as well as a chapbook,\u00a0<em>Death by Sex Machine<\/em>\u00a0(Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). A Kundiman Fellow and graduate of the University of Michigan&#8217;s Helen Zell Writers Program, she co-hosts the podcast VS alongside fellow Dark Noise Collective member Danez Smith. She teaches at Williams College as a Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow and lives in Northampton, MA. Photo by Jasmine Durhal.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/marysoonlee-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-722 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Mary Soon Lee<\/strong>\u00a0was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for over twenty years. Her two latest books are from opposite ends of the poetry spectrum:\u00a0<em>Elemental Haiku,<\/em>\u00a0containing haiku for each element of the periodic table (Ten Speed Press, 2019) and\u00a0<em>The Sign of the Dragon,<\/em>\u00a0an epic fantasy with Chinese and Mongolian elements (JABberwocky Literary Agency, 2020). She has a website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marysoonlee.com\/\">marysoonlee.com<\/a>\u00a0and tweets at @MarySoonLee.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GOClark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-659 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GOClark.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/GOClark-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>G. O. Clark<\/strong>\u2019s writing has been published in\u00a0<em>Asimov&#8217;s, Analog, Space &amp; Time, Midnight Under The Big Top, Daily SF, HWA Poetry Showcase VII\u00a0<\/em>and many other publications over the last 30 years. He&#8217;s the author of 15 poetry collections; the most recent,\u00a0<em>Easy Travel To The Stars,<\/em>\u00a02020. His second fiction collection,\u00a0<em>Twist &amp; Turns,<\/em>\u00a0came out in 2016. He won the Asimov&#8217;s Readers Award for poetry in 2001 and was Stoker Award finalist in 2011. He&#8217;s retired and lives in Davis, CA.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goclarkpoet.weebly.com\/\">goclarkpoet.weebly.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/simonmarge.jpg\" alt=\"a black-and-white photo of a woman with curly hair smiling at the camera\" class=\"wp-image-754 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/simonmarge.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/simonmarge-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Marge Simon<\/strong>\u00a0lives in Ocala, FL. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, &#8220;Blood &amp; Spades: Poets of the Dark Side,&#8221; and serves on Board of Trustees.\u00a0\u00a0She is the second woman to be acknowledged by the SFPA with a Grand Master Award. She is a Bram Stoker Award recipient and multiple finalist.\u00a0Other awards: Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons Readers\u2019 Award.\u00a0Winner (with Bryan Dietrich) of the Lord Ruthven Assembly award for Best Vampire collection, 2020. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet\/writer and is among the founders of the Speculative Literary Foundation.<a href=\"http:\/\/margesimon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0margesimon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DietrichBryan.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-574 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DietrichBryan.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DietrichBryan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Bryan D. Dietrich<\/strong>\u00a0is a former president of the SFPA and\u00a0the author of nine books of poems and co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published poems in\u00a0<em>Asimov&#8217;s, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons,<\/em>\u00a0<em>The New Yorker<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Poetry,\u00a0<\/em>and many other journals. Finalist for the Bram Stoker Awards (along with Marge Simon), he has won\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0Prize, a\u00a0<em>Nation<\/em>\u00a0Award, the Lord Ruthven Award, and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Pulitzer. Bryan is Professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JohnsonJohnP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-592 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>John Philip Johnson<\/strong>\u00a0is a Pushcart-prize winning poet who writes science fiction and fantasy. He has had work in\u00a0<em>Asimov\u2019s, F&amp;SF, Strange Horizons, Rattle<\/em>, and elsewhere, including Ted Kooser\u2019s newspaper column, &#8220;American Life in Poetry.&#8221; He has two comic books of graphic poetry<em>, Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Book of Fly,<\/em>\u00a0with poems like little\u00a0<em>Twilight Zone<\/em>\u00a0episodes. Both books are available at his website,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnphilipjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">johnphilipjohnson.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/OlsonChristina.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/OlsonChristina.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/OlsonChristina-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Christina Olson<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<em>Terminal Human Velocity<\/em>. Her chapbook\u00a0<em>The Last Mastodon<\/em>\u00a0won the Rattle 2019 Chapbook Contest. Other work appears in\u00a0<em>The Atlantic, The Normal School, Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Best Creative Nonfiction<\/em>. She is an associate professor at Georgia Southern University and tweets about coneys and mastodons as @olsonquest.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/KaudererHerb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-593 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/KaudererHerb.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/KaudererHerb-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Herb Kauderer<\/strong>\u00a0is an English Professor at Hilbert College, and holds a PhD, an MFA in Creative Writing, and five other degrees.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Fragments from the Book of the After-Dead<\/em>\u00a0was his seventeenth poetry collection, and was followed by the mainstream chapbook\u00a0<em>Frozen at the Edges.<\/em>\u00a0His writing has won the\u00a0<em>Asimov\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0Readers\u2019 Award, been a finalist for the\u00a0<em>Analog<\/em>\u00a0AnLab Readers\u2019 Award, and received Honorable Mention in\u00a0<em>The Year\u2019s Best Fantasy &amp; Horror.<\/em>\u00a0He has also been nominated for the Pushcart, Rhysling, and Dwarf Star awards.\u00a0He is an assistant poetry editor at\u00a0<em>Amazing Stories<\/em>, and co-edits (with Sandra J. Lindow) \u201cSpecPo Reviews\u201d on the\u00a0<em>SpecPo Blog<\/em>. More about Herb and his writing can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/herbkauderer.com\/\">HerbKauderer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All Nominated Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapbooks Nominated<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnphilipjohnson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Book of Fly<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 John Philip Johnson (Graphic Poetry Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostcitypress.com\/2019-summer-microchap-series-1\/coronations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coronations<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Catherine Kyle (<a href=\"https:\/\/ghostcitypress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ghost City Press<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapsalteerie.co.uk\/product\/dark-matters-by-russell-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dark Matters<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Russell Jones (Tapsalteerie Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/boutique.poetshaven.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fragments from the Book of the After-Dead<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Herb Kauderer (The Poet\u2019s Haven, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mmminutiae.storenvy.com\/products\/27912510-havoc-in-silence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Havoc in Silence<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Tiffany Morris (Molten Molecular Minutiae, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Inverted Night<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 John W. Sexton (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survisionmagazine.com\/books.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SurVision Books<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bateaupress.org\/index.php\/chapbooks\/kola-superdeep-borehole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kola Superdeep Borehole<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Joe Fletcher (Bateau Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rattle.com\/chapbooks\/the-last-mastodon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Last Mastodon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Christina Olson (Rattle, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacecowboybooks.bandcamp.com\/album\/odes-to-scientists-us-clone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Odes to Scientists \/ Us, Clone<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(audio) \u2022 Jean-Paul Garnier (Space Cowboy Books, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/boutique.poetshaven.com\/AuthorSeries?product_id=147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Origami Lilies<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Joshua Gage (The Poet\u2019s Haven, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/porkbellypress.com\/poetry\/says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Says the Forest to the Girl<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Sally Rosen Kindred (Porkbelly Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rattle.com\/chapbooks\/tales-from-the-house-of-vasquez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tales from the House of Vasquez<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Raquel Vasquez Gilliland (Rattle Poetry, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/porkbellypress.com\/poetry\/titania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Titania in Yellow<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Dayna Patterson (Porkbelly Press, 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Full-Length Books Nominated<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayapplepress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Absolute Zero<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David Lunde (Mayapple Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Age-Glass-Anna-Maria-Hong\/dp\/0996316795\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Age of Glass<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Anna Marie Hong (CSU Poetry Center, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqueductpress.com\/books\/978-1-61976-165-0.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Algorithmic Shapeshifting<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Bogi Tak\u00e1cs (Aqueduct Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ambassador-Takes-One-Team\/dp\/1936021633\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Ambassador Takes One for the Team<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Diminuendo Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/books\/the-apocalyptic-mannequin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Apocalyptic Mannequin<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seas-Turn-Red-Morgan-Sylvia\/dp\/1720389705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">As The Seas Turn Red<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Morgan Sylvia (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bear-Coyote-Raven-Jason-Grundstrom-Whitney\/dp\/0998819557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bear, Coyote, Raven<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Jason Grundstrom-Whitney (Resolute Bear Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Cacophony<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Josh Medsker (<a href=\"https:\/\/alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alien Buddha Press<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infiniterealmsbookstore.com\/product-page\/candle-and-pins-by-jacqueline-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Candles &amp; Pins<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Jacqueline West (Alban Lake, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaselpress.com\/shop\/the-ceremonial-armor-of-the-impostor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Ceremonial Armor of the Impostor<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Gregory Kimbrell (Weasel Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rawdogscreaming.com\/books\/choking-back-the-devil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Choking Back the Devil<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Donna Lynch (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Comfort-Screams-G-Clark\/dp\/1087850444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Comfort of Screams<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0 G. O. Clark (Alban Lake Publishing, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2UqOM8C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dame Evergreen: And Other Poems of Myth, Magic &amp; Madness<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Rebecca Buchanan (Sycorax Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/a-midsummer-nights-press.myshopify.com\/products\/dead-girls-by-francesca-lia-block\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dead Girls<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Francesca Lia Block (<a href=\"https:\/\/amidsummernightspress.com\/WP\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Press<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfpress.org\/books\/deaf-republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deaf Republic<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Ilya Kaminsky (Graywolf Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Demeter Diaries<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Marge Simon &amp; Bryan D. Dietrich (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independentlegions.com\/\">Independent Legions<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lycanvalley.com\/2019\/04\/new-release-dragonfly-and-other-songs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dragonfly and Other Songs of Mourning<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Michelle Scalise (Lycan Valley Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/605873\/elemental-haiku-by-mary-soon-lee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elemental Haiku<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Mary Soon Lee (Ten Speed Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07BC5B5W5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Endless Frontier: Poetry for Space Explorers<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 irving (2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finishinglinepress.com\/product\/the-gates-of-never-by-deborah-l-davitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Gates of Never<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Deborah L. Davitt (Finishing Line Press)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1988214254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">goodwill galaxy hunting<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 LeRoy Gorman (Urban Farmhouse Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aqueductpress.com\/books\/978-1-61976-151-3.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Invocabulary<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Gemma Files (Aqueduct Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The Ladies of the Everlasting Lichen and Other Relics<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Wade German (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/category\/Local-Business\/Mount-Abraxas-Press-1701211303276898\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mount Abraxas Press<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/claythistleton.wixsite.com\/claythistleton\/noisesome-ghosts-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noisesome Ghosts<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Clay Thistleton (Blart Books, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/599692\/the-octopus-museum-by-brenda-shaughnessy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Octopus Museum<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Brenda Shaughnessey (Knopf, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Our-Otherworld-Juleigh-Howard-Hobson\/dp\/1732502390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Our Otherworld<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Juleigh Howard-Hobson (The Red Salon, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07DDCBF76\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palaces of the Ages: Poetry of the Fantastic and the Strange<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 irving (2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popcornpress.com\/product\/the-pastime-machine-a-byronic-mashup-of-dante-and-wells-in-101-sonnets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Pastime Machine<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Lester Smith (Popcorn Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infiniterealmsbookstore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Planet Hunter<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Alan Ira Gordon (Alban Lake, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Planets-scifaiku-poetry-collection\/dp\/1700527266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Planets<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Wendy Van Camp (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/transcendentzeropress.org\/jake-tringali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poetry for the Neon Apocalypse<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Jake Tringali (Transcendent Zero Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Queen-His-King-David-Hoenig-ebook\/dp\/B07H9LJQBX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Queen to His King<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 David M. Hoenig (Oscillate Wildly Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>A Route Obscure and Lonely<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 LindaAnn LoSchiavo (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wapshottpress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Wapshott Press<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/readcwbooks.com\/walker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Small Waiting Objects<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 T. D. Walker (CW Books, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alicejamesbooks.org\/bookstore\/soft-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Soft Science<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Franny Choi (Alice James Books, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Such Luck<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Sara Backer (<a href=\"https:\/\/leftfork.org\/flowstone\/available\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flowstone Press<\/a>, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/steven-withrow\/the-sun-ships-other-poems\/paperback\/product-24484074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sun Ships &amp; Other Poems<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Steven Withrow (2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07C5VJR86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There Will Be a Reckoning: Poems of Magic and Dread<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 irving (2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thirteen-Nocturnes-Oliver-Sheppard\/dp\/1978331207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thirteen Nocturnes<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Oliver Sheppard (Ikonograph Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0999883925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Year of the Witch<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Shannon Connor Winward (Sycorax Press, 2018)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegetarianalcoholicpress.com\/titles\/chloe-n-clark-your-strange-fortune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Your Strange Fortune<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Chloe N. Clark (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoneboatwi.com\/pebblebrook-press.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zen Amen: A Collection of Abecedarians<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Michael Kriesel (Pebblebrook Press, 2019)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nominations per Press<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Alban Lake<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Alice James Books<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Alien Buddha Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Aqueduct Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Bateau Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Blart Books<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>CSU Poetry Center<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>CW Books<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Diminuendo Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Finishing Line Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Flowstone Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Ghost City Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Graphic Poetry Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Graywolf Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Ikonograph Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Independent Legions<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Knopf<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Lycan Valley Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Mayapple Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>A Midsummer Night&#8217;s Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Molten Molecular Minutiae<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Mount Abraxas Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Oscillate Wildly Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Pebblebrook Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>The Poet\u2019s Haven<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Porkbelly Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Popcorn Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Rattle Poetry<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Raw Dog Screaming Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>The Red Salon<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Resolute Bear Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Space Cowboy Books<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Survision Books<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Sycorax Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Tapsalteerie Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Ten Speed Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Transcendent Zero Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Urban Farmhouse Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Vegetarian Alcoholic Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>The Wapshott Press<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Weasel Press<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award Information The 2020 Elgin Awards were given for books and chapbooks published in 2018 and 2019. 52 SFPA members voted on 13 total chapbooks and 42 total full-length books of poetry to determine the winners. 2020 Chair Colleen Anderson is a Canadian author writing fiction and poetry and has had over 170 poems published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8961","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8969,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8961\/revisions\/8969"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfpoetry.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}