2025 Book Prize in Nonfiction Announced
Gail Hosking Wins 2025 Permafrost Book Prize in Nonfiction for Dispatches Decades Later
Gail Hosking of Rochester, New York won the 2025 Permafrost Book Prize in nonfiction for her essay collection Dispatches Decades Later. She received $1,000, and her book will be published by University of 黨Ƶ Press in June 2027. The contest was judged by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Gail Hosking is the author of the memoir Snake’s 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 “most notable” 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’s Reckoning will be published in December of 2026 by University Press of Kentucky.