Winners of the 2007 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Diane Sullivan Mertens for the essay "Tuesdays"
Runner-up
Naomi Wax

Poetry
First Prize
John Colasacco for the poems "Non-Arson Sonnets" and "Naked Women of North America"
Runners-up
Mary Flanagan, Nancy Kathleen Pearson

Fiction
First Prize
Randi Faust for the story "Displacement"
Runners-up
Erin Soros, Lidia Yuknavitch

Winners of the 2006 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Bonnie J. Rough, The Birdmen
Runners-up
Abraham Brennan, Miho Nonaka, Sandra Novack

Poetry
First Prize
Margaret Monaghan, Delft Farm; Night of Terrible Ending; Why People Put Each Other on Watches; Field of Seed; Dresden Stollen
Runners-up
Allison Benis, Jennifer Chapis, Scott Glassman, Kristina Martinez, Susan McCabe

Fiction
First Prize
Stellar Kim, Findings & Impressions
Runners-up
Katherine Gustafson, Adam Hunault

Winners of the 2005 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Mark M. Martin, Parable
Runners-up
Laurie Clements Lambeth, Lia Purpura, Gail Waldstein

Poetry
First Prize
Kayoko Wakamatsu, Floodland
Runners-up
Jeannette Alleé, Shane Book, Jacqueline Berger, Julianne Buchsbaum, Alexandra Budny, Melanie Drane, Ryan Fox, Roy Jacobstein, David Keplinger, Julia Story, Susan Terris, Katherine E. Young

Fiction
First Prize (co-winners)
Meghan Kenny, The Driest Season
Charles McLeod, Individualized Altimetry of Stripes

Winners of the 2004 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Maureen Stanton, Laundry
Runners-up
Laura S. Distelheim, Lia Purpura

Poetry
First Prize
Kristin Case, Photographs from Rt. 80; Critique of Pure Reason; Housework; Directive (What Is Poetry?)
Runners-up
Wilson Diehl, Mary Donnelly, Jeff Fallis, Jannett Highfill, Robert Rehder, Ellen Wehle, Katherine E. Young

Fiction
First Prize
H.G. Carrillo, Cosas
Runners-up
Mary Jean Babic, Sandra Park, Jonathan VanBallenberghe

Winners of the 2003 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Sonja Livingston, Albion Season
Runners-up
Christine Hemp, Martin Lammon, Lia Purpura

Poetry
First Prize
Susan Thomas, The Empty Notebook Poems
Runners-up
Catherine Barnett, Stacie Cassarino, Christopher Cunningham, Elizabeth Skurnick, D.H. Tracy, Katherine E. Young

Fiction
First Prize
Nona Caspers, Country Girls
Runners-up
Robyn Mundy, Jesse Waters

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