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 of Faraz Ali," in which a young girl meets a violent death in Lahore's red-light district. Ahmad's debut poses and explores the question "Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?"

In Young-Adult Literature, judges awarded another work on youth and sacrifice: Lyn Miller-Lachmann for “Torch” which follows three teens in 1969 Czechoslovakia as they struggle to survive in the wake of their friend's self-immolation.