The Juliet Gibson Memorial Award

OUTSTANDING STUDENT WRITER:

Amy Jarvis

FINALIST IN PROSE:

Jason Ferris

Finalist in Poetry:

Deon Robinson

The staff of RiverCraft would like to thank this year’s judges, Dana Diehl and Billie R. Tadros.

Billie R. Tadros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Theatre at The University of Scranton. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her M.F.A. in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and she is a graduate of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. She is the author of three books of poems, Graft Fixa- tion (forthcoming from Gold Wake Press, 2021), Was Body (forthcoming from Indo- lent Books, 2020), and The Tree We Planted and Buried You In (Otis Books, 2018), and three chapbooks, Am/Are I (forthcoming from Francis House Publishing, 2020), inter: burial places (Porkbelly Press, 2016), and Containers (Dancing Girl Press, 2014).

Dana Diehl earned her BA in Creative Writing from Susquehanna University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Dana has served as editor-in-chief of Hayden’s Ferry Review and The Susquehanna Review. She is a Blog Interviewer for The Collagist. She has taught Composition, Creative Writing, and Humanities at Arizona State University, Florence Prison, the National University of Singapore, and BASIS Primary. Her honors and awards include a Completion Fellowship from Arizona State University, as well as Piper Enrichment Grants to attend the Port Townshend Writers Conference and the Rutgers Camden Summer Writers’ Conference. In 2014, she received a Piper Global Fellowship to teach Creative Writing at the National University of Singapore. She has been awarded a Glendon & Kathryn Swarthout Prize in Fiction.

The RiverCraft staff is grateful that they took the time and consideration to select this year’s winner and runners-up.