 Essay Press / University of Washington Bothell MFA Book Contest
Essay Press and the University of Washington Bothell’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Poetics are happy to announce the winners of our 2019 book contest: Ching-In Chen has selected Poem That Never Ends by Silvina López Medin and Jill Magi has selected Groundswell by Yanara Friedland!
Poem That Never Ends by SILVINA LÓPEZ MEDIN
Photo credit: Martín Sonzogni Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. She is the author of four books of poetry: La noche de los bueyes (Madrid, 1999), which won the Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize, Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar (Buenos Aires, 2014), 62 brazadas (Buenos Aires, 2015), and Excursion (Buenos Aires, forthcoming 2020). Excursion was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the 2019 Oversound Chapbook Prize (Oversound, 2020). Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo, 2008) was granted the Plays Third Prize by the Argentine Institute of Theatre. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet (2015) into Spanish. Her poems and other pieces have appeared in Ploughshares, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, Poetry Daily, and MoMA/post, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU and is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. Groundswell by YANARA FRIEDLAND
Photo credit: Benjamin M Johnson
Yanara Friedland is a writer and translator born in Berlin. Her first book Uncountry: A Mythology was the winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Fiction award and is forthcoming in German translation with Mattes & Seitz. She is the recipient of research grants from the DAAD and Arizona Commission on the Arts, supporting her poetic chorography of walls and borders Groundswell. Recent work has appeared in Western Humanities Review, Asymptote, and Matters of Feminist Practice. She is Assistant Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies and runs MUTTER COURAGE, an occasional reading series in Bellingham, WA. She is currently working on a book on sleeplessness. EDITORS’ SELECTION The Essay Press editors have also selected Valerie Hsiung’s hummingbird et partygirl for publication.
FINALISTS Jessica Bozek, Grief Machine: A Diary
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