Congratulations to Toi Derricotte, author of The Undertaker's Daughter, on winning the 2012 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement (open to previous winners of the Paterson Poetry Prize) from The Poetry Center in Paterson, NJ.
Wanda Coleman is the 2012 recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award, from the Poetry Society of America, presented annually to a living American poet selected with reference to his or her genius and need by a jury of poets. Pitt Press has published two collections by Coleman, Ostinato Vamps and the latest, The World Falls Away.
Diane Davis has won the 2010 JAC W. Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding
book on composition theory published that year—Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations.
Congratulations to the co-authors of Teenie Harris, Photographer: Image, Memory, History—Cheryl Finley, Laurence Glasco, and Joe W. Trotter. The book received an "Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation" from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. The citation was part of the BCALA 2012 Literary Awards |
