Many thanks to all the poets who submitted their work to the Split Rock Press Chapbook Series. We received many fine collections, and it was an extremely difficult decision due to the high quality of work.

We are so thrilled to announce that Anne Haven McDonnell’s Living with Wolves and Vivian Faith Prescott’s The Last Glacier at the End of the World have been chosen as the winners of the Split Rock Press Chapbook Series for 2019! McDonnell’s and Prescott’s chapbooks will be published and available in fall 2020.

WINNERS

Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, NM and teaches as an associate professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work has been published in Orion Magazine, The Georgia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Nimrod, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her work won the fifth annual Terrain.org poetry prize, and second place for the international ecopoetry Gingko prize. She has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers’ Residency and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.

Vivian Faith Prescott was born and raised in Southeast Alaska and lives at her family’s fishcamp—Mickey’s Fishcamp—in Wrangell, Alaska. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska and a PhD in Cross Cultural Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She’s a two-time recipient of a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. Vivian is also the author of four chapbooks, two full-length poetry books, and a short story collection. Along with her daughter, Vivian Mork Yéilk', she writes the column Planet Alaska for the Juneau Empire.

We would also like to recognize the strong collections submitted by the finalists, listed in alphabetical order.

Finalists

Coveting the River Birch by Patricia Clark 

Stare by Brad Clompus

Between Kingdoms by Jeff Ewing

Hydrography by Katrina Hays

Divining by Rosemary Royston

After Totality by Constance Wieneke

Thank you for your continued interest and support in Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press. We wouldn’t be able to publish and promote great literature and art without you.