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FICTION
2001     The road builder by Nicholas Hershenow
2000     Straight white male by Gerald Haslam
1999     The blossom festival by Lawrence Coates; Simon Ortiz, for lifetime achievement in fiction and for Men on the moon : collected short stories
1998     The flower in the skull by Kathleen Alcalá
1996     A killing in New Town by Kate Horsley
1994     MotherTongue by Demetria Martinez
1993     The hedge, the ribbon : a novel by Carol Orlock
1992     Little altars everywhere : a novel by Rebecca Wells
1990     The devil in Texas (El Diablo en Texas) by Aristeo Brito
1988     Sailing to Corinth : stories by Irene Wanner
1986     My amputations : a novel by Clarence Major
1984     The iguana killer : twelve stories of the heart by Alberto Rios

POETRY
2001     Bitters by Rebecca Seiferle; Carolyn Kizer, for lifetime achievement in poetry, and for Cool, calm, & collected : poems 1960-2000
2000     The brink by Peter Sears
1999     Communion by Primus St. John
1998     Four-year-old-girl by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
1996     Flying over Sonny Liston : poems by Gary Short
1995     My town by David Lee
1994     The fever of being by Luis Alberto Urrea
1993     August zero by Jane Miller
1992     William Stafford, for lifetime achievement in poetry, and for My name is William Tell : poems
1990     John Haines, for lifetime achievement in poetry, and for New poems, 1980-88
1988     Desire : selected poems, 1963-1987 by David Bromige
1986     Time and the white tigress by Mary Barnard
1984     In all the rooms of the yellow house by Nancy Mairs; Eve Triem, for lifetime achievement in poetry, and for New as a wave : a retrospective, 1937-1983

CREATIVE NONFICTION
2001     My story as told by water : confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark by David James Duncan
2000     In these hills by Ralph Beer
1999     Salt dreams : land & water in low-down California by William Debuys
1998     Chokecherry places : essays from the high plains by Merrill Gilfillan
1996     Wisdom sits in places : language and landscape among the Western Apache by Keith Basso
1995     Downcanyon : a naturalist explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon by Ann Haymond Zwinger
1995     Borneo log : the struggle for Sarawak's forests by William Bevis
1994     Iron house : stories from the yard by Jerome Washington
1993     Two old women : an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage, and survival by Velma Wallis
1992     Citation For Merit.  Fruit fields in my blood : Okie migrants in the West by Toby F. Sonneman
1992     Going back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton
1990     The telling distance : conversations with the American desert by Bruce Berger
1988     Mayordomo : chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico by Stanley Crawford
1986     The seventh dragon : the riddle of equal temperament by Anita Sullivan; Citation for Merit.  Having everything right : essays of place by Kim R. Stafford
1984     A heaven in the eye by Clyde Rice

TRANSLATION
2001     The silk dragon : translations from the Chinese. Translations by Arthur Sze
2000     The collected songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan; translated from the Chinese by Red Pine