CLAS FACULTY WIN MAJOR BOOK AWARDS
In poetry, fellow English faculty member Donika Kelly won the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry for her collection titled The Renunciations. It is the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity. Kelly was one of five recipients in the class of 2022. Anisfield-Wolf juror, Pulitzer laureate and 1977 Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Rita Dove called
This spring, three CLAS faculty won major book awards affirming the University of Iowa’s strength in writing across the disciplines.
In nonfiction, Associate Professor Melissa Febos continued an impressive run of honors in April when she was was named a 2022 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in general nonfiction. This came after also being named a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in January, and then in March winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.
The Renunciations “poetry of the highest order.”
Lastly, in political science, Professor and Lowell G. Battershell University Distinguished Chair of Political Science Caroline Tolbert was awarded the 2022 Goldsmith Book Prize in Academics for her book, Choosing the Future: Technology and Opportunity in Communities . The Goldsmith Awards are presented by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
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