About the Winners:

Ryan Black has published previously in AGNI, The Literary Review, The Journal, Ninth Letter, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and has received fellowships from the Adirondack Center for Writing, The Millay Colony for the Arts, and the Queens Council on the Arts. He was a finalist for the 2016 Alice James Award and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. He teaches in the English Department at Queens College/CUNY, and lives in Jackson Heights.

Brandon Kreitler is the recipient of a Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Prize from the 92Y's Unterberg Poetry Center and a Graduate Teaching Fellowship from Columbia University. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, and Verse Daily among other journals. Brandon is from Arizona and lives in New York City, where he teaches at the City University of New York.

The Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship
30 and Under

Oxyana by William Brewer
selected by Marilyn Nelson

Nonstop Godhead by Analicia Sotelo
selected by Rigoberto González

Finalist: Strandings by Andrew Payton

About the Winners:

William Brewer is the recipient of a 2016-18 Wallace Stegner Poetry Fellowship from Stanford University. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, The Nation, A Public Space, and other journals. He was born and raised in West Virginia.

Analicia Sotelo holds an MFA from the University of Houston. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Forklift, Ohio, The Antioch Review, Meridian, The Collagist, and elsewhere. Tracy K. Smith selected "I'm Trying to Write a Poem About a Virgin and It's Awful" for Best New Poets 2015. She has received scholarships from Squaw Valley and Image-Text-Ithaca, and is the 2016 Disquiet International Literary Prize winner in Poetry. She currently lives in Houston.