Book Prize for Nonfiction
Congratulations to our winner of the 2025 Book Prize in Nonfiction!
Gail Hosking, Dispatches Decades Later
Gail Hosking is the author of the memoir Snake鈥檚 Daughter: The Roads in and out of War and two books of poems Retrieval and Adieu. She holds an MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. Her essays and poems have appeared
in such places as Waxwing, Post Road, South Dakota Review, West Trade Review and The
Healing Muse. Several pieces have been anthologized. Twice 鈥渕ost notable鈥 in Best
American Essays with several Pushcart nominations. Her work has been a finalist for
the Gourney prize, the Autumn House Press book contest, Marsh Creek Press poetry award,
River Teeth essay contest, Iowa Review NF award, and Center for Book Arts Poetry chapbook
contest. Her forthcoming memoir No Glory: A Military Family鈥檚 Reckoning will be published in December of 2026 by University Press of Kentucky.
麻花视频 Alison Hawthorne Deming
Poet, essayist, and editor Alison Hawthorne Deming, recipient of fellowships from
Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Borchard Center for
Literary Arts, has published six books of poetry and five books of nonfiction. Two
new books are out in 2025: the poetry collection Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower (Red Hen Press) and the anthology The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, & Connection (Storey Press). She co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy the anthology The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. She served as Poet-in-Residence at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens for the Language
of Conservation; and the Milwaukee Public Museum and Milwaukee Public Library for
Field Work, both projects sponsored by Poet鈥檚 House. Her other awards include fellowships
from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford
University, and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is
former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and former Director
of the UA Poetry Center. Currently she is Regents Professor Emerita at the University
of Arizona. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada.