April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Introducing the Winners of the 2022 Whiting Awards By The Paris Review For the eighth consecutive year, The Paris Review is pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Whiting Awards. As in previous years, we’re also delighted to share excerpts of work by each of the winners. Here’s the list of the 2021 honorees: Claire Boyles, fiction Rita Bullwinkel, fiction Ina Cariño, poetry Anthony Cody, poetry Anaïs Duplan, nonfiction Alexis Pauline Gumbs, nonfiction Megha Majumdar, fiction Jesse McCarthy, nonfiction Nana Nkweti, fiction Claire Schwartz, poetry Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Anthony Cody, Poetry By Anthony Cody Anthony Cody. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Contest and the 2021 American Book Award. The book was a finalist for the National Book Award, the L.A. Times Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN America / Jean Stein Book Award, and was longlisted for the Believer Magazine Editor’s Award. A CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California, he has lineage in the Bracero Program and the Dust Bowl. He collaborates with Juan Felipe Herrera and the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio, and serves as an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press and as a poetry editor for Omnidawn. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Ina Cariño, Poetry By Ina Cariño Ina Cariño. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Ina Cariño holds an MFA in creative writing from North Carolina State University. Their poetry appears in Guernica, Diode, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, and elsewhere. Cariño is a Kundiman fellow and a recipient of a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. They are the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for Feast, forthcoming from Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2021, Cariño was selected as one of four winners of the 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. In 2019, they founded a reading series, Indigena Collective, centering marginalized creatives in the community. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Jesse McCarthy, Nonfiction By Jesse McCarthy Jesse McCarthy. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Jesse McCarthy is an assistant professor in the Department of English and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of the essay collection Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?—a Time and Kirkus Reviews Book of the Year—and The Fugitivities, a novel. His writing on culture, politics, and literature has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Dissent, The New Republic, and n+1. He also serves as a contributing editor at The Point. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Nana Nkweti, Fiction By Nana Nkweti Nana Nkweti. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Nana Nkweti is the author of the story collection Walking on Cowrie Shells. An AKO Caine Prize finalist and alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, her work has garnered fellowships from MacDowell, Kimbilio, Ucross, and Clarion West, among others. She has studied international law and trained and practiced as a nurse, and is now a professor of English at the University of Alabama. Read More
April 6, 2022 Whiting Awards 2022 Megha Majumdar, Fiction By Megha Majumdar Megha Majumdar. Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan. Megha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times Notable Book A Burning, which was nominated for the National Book Award, the NBCC’s John Leonard Prize, and the American Library Association’s Carnegie Medal. She is also the editor in chief at Catapult Books. She grew up in Kolkata, India, and now lives in New York. A Burning is her first book. Read More