The Poetry prize was awarded to Dionne Brand for “Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
The Poetry prize was awarded to Dionne Brand for “Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems In Science and Technology, Sabrina Imbler was honored for “How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures,” which explores themes of survival and sexuality , community and care, while weaving the extraordinary world of marine biology with the author's personal account of family and relationships. "Writing this book helped me come out as trans, which I can’t recommend enough," Imbler joked, before adding that we're living in a time when the trans and queer community is under siege. "The ocean proves that changing sex is the most natural thing in the world. If you don’t believe me ask a clown fish." “Spear,” Nicola Griffith's "queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era," earned The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, while he Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction prize went to Aamina Ahmad's “The Return...