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What is your favorite Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner? We asked Melanie at Cleveland Public Library to share her favorite AWBA book and she loved 2017 Nonfiction winner, Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly. Learn more about this winning book here: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/hidden…

"Stories, indeed, are our most precious inheritance." Peter Ho Davies, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Juror and past AWBA winner, shares his thoughts on the inaugural Memoir winner, Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls. Learn more about this book here: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/feedin…

Congratulations to Tessa Hulls' 2025 AWBA Award Winning Memoir, Feeding Ghosts, the first graphic memoir awarded an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, for being awarded the The Pulitzer Prizes for Memoir! pulitzer.org/prize-winners-…

Congratulations to 2022 AWBA winner, Percival Everett, on his The Pulitzer Prizes Award for fiction for his novel, James! npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-…

Monica Youn, author of "From From," the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winning book for Poetry, shares the benefit of seeing yourself in literature from an early age. To celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islanders month, learn more about "From From" here: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/from-f…

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Juror, Charles King, shares that this year's Nonfiction winner, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a stunning achievement in autobiographical writing and political commentary. Learn more: youtube.com/shorts/NgJ0YJk…

Kortney Morrow, the Program Director for AWBA, led a generative poetry workshop at Cleveland School of the Arts featuring AWBA-winning books of poetry by Monica Youn and Janice N. Harrington. The AWBA canon is filled with works that educate and inspire. anisfield-wolf.org/winners/

In conversation with Kortney Morrow, AWBA program director, at The City Club of CLE, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis discussed her AWBA Finalist book, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America," how visual tactics have secured a regime of racial hierarchy and how to dismantle it.

Marilyn Chin is an acclaimed poet and winner of the 2015 AWBA for Poetry for her work, Hard Love Province. Her poetry often blends Eastern and Western forms as it addresses biculturalism, feminism and Asian identity. Learn more as we celebrate AAPI Month: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/hard-l…

This year's AWBA Lifetime Achievement Winner, Yusef Komunyakaa's seminal work, Dien Cai Dau, is often described as one of the best books of literature about the Vietnam War. Learn more about Yusef Komunyakaa here: youtube.com/shorts/oCu7VFR…

We have partnered with Ohio Center for the Book, Ursuline College, and Case Western Reserve to host book discussions led by Fellows Dr. Valentino Zullo and Dr. Jamie Hickner. Join us on May 21 at Cleveland Public Library for a discussion on Lifetime Achievement Winner, John Edgar Wideman's memoir "Brothers and Keepers."

The 2023 Anisfield-Wold Book Awards winning novel, The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang offers heartbreak, comedy and suspense, and is an important post-immigrant novel. Learn more as we celebrate AAPI Heritage Month here: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/the-fa…

Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s "Yard Show" to investigate how Black Americans have shaped a sense of belonging and place within the Midwestern United States. Learn about the AWBA Poetry Winner: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/yard-s…

The Open Book Project, run by Ben Sperry, provides book discussions in Grafton Correctional Institution. We provided Ben with past AWBA books and this year's Nonfiction Winner, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, to share with the incarcerated individuals.

This Memorial Day, we share "Facing It" from Lifetime Achievement Winner, Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dau. The speaker in this poem faces the granite walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, tracing the engraved names of those who died or went missing in the line of service.

With impeccable, provocative, and propulsive prose, Danzy Senna’s "Colored Television" is a master class in satire and the constant wrangling our humanity requires of us. Read more about this year's AWBA Fiction Winner, "Colored Television": anisfield-wolf.org/winners/colore…

Have you read this year's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners yet? Let us know which books are next on your list!

Tessa Hulls' graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, is a compendious multi-generational epic combining a sweeping history of twentieth century China with an intimate, extraordinary family story. Learn more about this award-winning graphic memoir here: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/feedin…

It can be hard to select a favorite Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner! Tiffany from Cleveland Public Library has 3 favorites from our canon. On Beauty by Zadie Smith, Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. anisfield-wolf.org/winners/

The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots brilliantly speaks to pressing themes in our own time – tyranny, despotism, the abuse of political power, migration, statelessness, race, and radicalism. Learn more: anisfield-wolf.org/winners/the-un…