Recent Awards Received By University of Pittsburgh Press Authors

Award

Organization

Author

Book Title

2023

Award:

Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award

(Winner)

Organization:

Society of Architectural Historians

Author:

Andrew Demshuk

Award:

CCCC Exemplar Award

(Winner)

Organization:

CCCC

Author:

Jonathan Alexander

Book Title:

Body of Work

Award:

CESS Outreach Award

(Honorable Mention)

Organization:

Central Eurasian Studies Society

Author:

David L. Montgomery

Book Title:

Central Asia

Award:

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

(Finalist)

Organization:

Tufts Poetry Awards

Author:

Aurielle Marie

Book Title:

Gumbo Ya Ya

Award:

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

(Finalist)

Organization:

Tufts Poetry Awards

Author:

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Book Title:

Dark Traffic

Award:

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry

(Finalist)

Organization:

Lambda Literary Awards

Author:

Brynne Rebele-Henry

Book Title:

Prelude

Award:

Norma Farber First Book Award

(Winner)

Organization:

Poetry Society of America

Author:

Paul Hlava Ceballos

Book Title:

banana [ ]

Award:

Sergio Troncoso Award

(Best Book of Fiction)

Organization:

Texas Institute of Letters

Author:

Ramona Reeves

Award:

Susan Socolow-Lyman Johnson Chile-Rio de la Plata Book Prize

(Winner)

Organization:

Conference on Latin American History

Author:

Carmen Soliz

Book Title:

Fields of Revolution

Award:

Turku Book Award

(Finalist)

Organization:

Rachel Carson Center and the European Society for Envrionmental History

Author:

Davide Orsini

Award:

Turku Book Award

(Finalist)

Organization:

Rachel Carson Center and the European Society for Envrionmental History

Author:

Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

Award:

Washington State Book Award in Poetry

(Finalist)

Organization:

Washington State Book Awards

Author:

Paul Hlava Ceballos

Book Title:

banana [ ]

2022

Award:

Edward Kremmers Award

(Winner)

Organization:

American Institute for the History of Pharmacy

Author:

Paula De Vos

Book Title:

Compound Remedies

Award:

Frost Medal

(Winner)

Organization:

Poetry Society of America

Author:

Sharon Olds

Book Title:

Body of Work

Award:

Georgia Author of the Year (Poetry)

(Winner)

Organization:

Georgia Author of the Year

Author:

Aurielle Marie

Book Title:

Gumbo Ya Ya

Award:

Indiana Authors Award

(Winner (Poetry))

Organization:

Indiana Authors Awards

Author:

Ross Gay

Book Title:

Be Holding

Award:

J.B. Jackson Book Prize

(Winner)

Organization:

Center for Cultural Landscapes

Author:

Amita Sinha

Award:

Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry

(Winner)

Organization:

Lambda Literary

Author:

Aurielle Marie

Book Title:

Gumbo Ya Ya

Award:

Nautilus Book Award

(Gold Winner)

Organization:

Nautilus Book Awards

Author:

Tracy Fuad

Book Title:

about:blank

Award:

PSA Women’s Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science

(Winner)

Organization:

Philosophy of Science Association

Author:

Maya Goldenberg

Book Title:

Vaccine Hesitancy

Award:

Patterson Poetry Prize

(Finalist)

Organization:

Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College

Author:

Adrienne Su

Book Title:

Peach State

Award:

Rhetoric Society of America Book Award

(Honorable Mention)

Organization:

Rhetoric Society of America

Author:

Elizabeth Kimball

Award:

Whitfield Prize

(Winner)

Organization:

Royal Historical Society

Author:

Kristin D. Hussey

Award:

Witold Pilecki International Book Award

(Finalist)

Organization:

Instytut Pileckiego

Author:

Paweł Pieniążek

2021

Award:

Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize

(Finalist)

Organization:

African Studies Association

Author:

Emily Brownell

Book Title:

Gone to Ground

Award:

CESS Book Award in Social Sciences

(Shortlist)

Organization:

Central Eurasian Studies Society

Author:

Diana T. Kudaibergenova

Award:

Charles Rufus Morey Book Award

(Winner)

Organization:

College Art Association of America

Author:

Charles L. Davis

Book Title:

Building Character

Award:

Eric Hoffer Award

(Medal Provocateur Finalist)

Organization:

Eric Hoffer Book Awards

Author:

Eleanor Boudreau

Book Title:

Earnest, Earnest?

Award:

Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award

(Winner)

Organization:

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Author:

Slava Gerovitch

Award:

Northern California Book Award

(Finalist, Fiction)

Organization:

Northern California Book Awards

Author:

Caroline Kim

Award:

Northern California Book Award

(Winner, Poetry)

Organization:

Northern California Book Awards

Author:

Danusha Laméris

Book Title:

Bonfire Opera

Award:

On the Brinck Book Award

(Winner)

Organization:

University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning

Author:

Charles L. Davis II

Book Title:

Building Character

Award:

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

(Longlist)

Organization:

PEN America

Author:

Jesse Kerchival

Book Title:

Poemas de Amor

Award:

PEN/Jean Stein Award

(Winner)

Organization:

PEN America

Author:

Ross Gay

Book Title:

Be Holding

Award:

PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection

(Longlist)

Organization:

PEN America

Author:

Caroline Kim

Award:

Paterson Poetry Prize

(Finalist)

Organization:

The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College

Author:

Danusha Laméris

Book Title:

Bonfire Opera

Award:

SSAWW Best Book Award

(Honorable Mention)

Organization:

Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Author:

Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant

Award:

The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize

(Winner)

Organization:

Foundation for Landscape Studies

Author:

Joseph S. Cialdella

Book Title:

Motor City Green

Award:

Wallace Stevens Award

(Winner)

Organization:

Academy of American Poetry

Author:

Toi Derricotte

Book Title:

Body of Work

2020

Award:

Alfred B. Thomas Book Award

(Honorable Mention)

Organization:

Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies

Author:

Natalia Milanesio

Book Title:

Destape

Award:

Antoinette Forrester Downing Book Award

Organization:

Society of Architectural Historians

Author:

Sally McMurry

Book Title:

Pennsylvania Farming

Award:

Best Book in the Humanities

(Southern Cone Section)

Organization:

Latin American Studies Association

Author:

Natalia Milanesio

Book Title:

Destape

Award:

Bolton-Johnson Prize

(Winner)

Organization:

Conference on Latin American History

Author:

Natalia Milanesio

Book Title:

Destape

Award:

Florida Book Awards in Poetry

(Silver Medal)

Organization:

Florida Book Awards

Author:

Eleanor Boudreau

Book Title:

Earnest, Earnest?

Award:

Frost Medal

(Lifetime Achievement)

Organization:

Poetry Society of America

Author:

Toi Derricotte

Award:

Judy Ewell Award

(Best Publication on Women’s History)

Organization:

Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies

Author:

Natalia Milanesio

Book Title:

Destape

Award:

Kate Tufts Discovery Award

(Winner)

Organization:

Tufts Poetry Awards

Author:

Tiana Clark

Award:

MSA First Book Prize

(Shortlist)

Organization:

Modernist Studies Association

Author:

Charles L. Davis II

Book Title:

Building Character

Award:

National Book Critics Circle Award

(Finalist)

Organization:

National Book Critics Circle

Author:

Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Book Title:

Imperial Liquor

Award:

Philip J. Pauly Prize

Organization:

History of Science Society

Author:

Joshua Nall

Book Title:

News from Mars

Award:

SRS Book Prize

Organization:

Society for Renaissance Studies

Author:

Hannah Murphy

Award:

William Carlos Williams Award

Organization:

Poetry Society of America

Author:

Martha Collins

2019

Award:

BCALA Literary Awards

(Honor Book)

Organization:

Black Caucus of the American Library Association

Author:

Toi Derricotte

Award:

Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award

Organization:

Triangle Publishing

Author:

Julian Randall

Book Title:

Refuse

Award:

CCCC Outstanding Book Award

Organization:

National Council for Teacher Education / NCTE

Author:

Rebecca Lorimer Leonard

Book Title:

Writing on the Move

Award:

Carnegie Science Award

(Environmental Category)

Organization:

Carnegie Science Center

Author:

Patricia DeMarco

Award:

Choice Awards

(Outstanding Academic Title)

Organization:

Choice Magazine / ALA

Author:

Thomas C. Lassman

Award:

Choice Awards

(Outstanding Academic Title)

Organization:

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

Author:

Brinda Sarathy, Janet Brodie, Vivien Hamilton

Book Title:

Inevitably Toxic

Award:

Choice Awards

(Outstanding Academic Title)

Organization:

Choice Outstanding Academic Titles

Author:

Christina Jiménez

Award:

Hungarian Studies Association Book Prize

Organization:

Hungarian Studies Association

Author:

John C. Swanson

Book Title:

Tangible Belonging

Award:

Julie Suk Prize

(Longlist)

Organization:

Jacar Press

Author:

Barbara Crooker

Book Title:

Some Glad Morning

Award:

Massachusetts Book Award

(Poetry)

Organization:

Massachusetts Center for the Book

Author:

Ilan Stavans

Book Title:

The Wall

Award:

National Book Award

(Finalist in Poetry)

Organization:

National Book Foundation

Author:

Toi Derricotte

Award:

Winner of the 2019 Best Book in the Humanities, Mexico Section

Organization:

Latin American Studies Association

Author:

Sophie Esch

Book Title:

Modernity at Gunpoint