USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Alan Heathcock Among Whiting Award Winners

The 2012 Whiting Award recipients include nonfiction writer Sharifa
Rhodes-Pitts of New York City, whose first book, Harlem is Nowhere: A
Journey to the Mecca of Black America (Little, Brown, 2011), was among
the 100 Notable Books of 2011 by the New York Times Book Review and
was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; poet Ciaran
Berry of Hartford, Connecticut, whose first full-length collection,
The Sphere of Birds, (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008) won
the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition in 2007; poet
Atsuro Riley of San Francisco, whose first book, Romey's Order
(University of Chicago Press, 2010) won the Kate Tufts Discovery
Award, the Believer Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the
Library of Congress; fiction writer Alan Heathcock of Boise, Idaho,
whose short story collection Volt (Graywolf Press, 2011) was a
finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize; fiction writer
Anthony Marra of Oakland, California, whose debut novel, A
Constellation of Vital Phenomena, and short story collection, The Tsar
of Love and Techno, will be published in 2013 and 2014, respectively,
by Hogarth Press; and fiction writer Hanna Pylväinen of New York City,
whose debut novel, We Sinners, was published this past summer by Henry
Holt.

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