Artful ashes12/6/2023 ![]() Laura van den Berg, author of I Hold a Wolf by the Earsĭaniel Borzutzky, National Book Award-winning poet and author of Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 Samiya Bashir, author of Field Theories Executive Director of Lambda Literaryĭorothy Bell Ferrer, author of El trasero grande de la muerteīrit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half Michael Barron, books editor at The Rumpus Gustavo Barahona-Lopez, author of Foundation Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winner of Ozone JournalĬarmiel Banasky, author of The Suicide of Claire Bishop Julissa Arce, author of You Sound Like a White Girlĭiana Arterian, author of Playing Monsterįatimah Asghar, author of When We Were Sisters Kali Fajardo-Anstine, author of Woman of Light Works that are honored by a prize and nomination are not only honored momentarily, but they become part of our canonical reading. We were dismayed to learn, through Javier Zamora’s op-ed piece, It’s Time for the Pulitzer Prize for Literature to Accept Noncitizens, that in the categories of Fiction, Biography, Memoir, Poetry, and General Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize requires authors to be United States citizens.Īlong the way of awarding new work, the Pulitzer has a hand, and an opportunity, in creating a new canon. We are supremely grateful for the decades’ work the Pulitzer has done to uplift books and authors.įrom this place of gratitude, and in hopes to speak to your alignment with the past work you have done, we implore you to update your requirements for the Pulitzer Prize to include the work of our peers who through accidents of geography, of violence perpetrated on our lands, and the personal familial reckonings with survival, have come to have or have been born into a mixed or undocumented status. We, the undersigned, are readers and lovers of literature, undocumented writers, first- and second-generation immigrants, Native and Black writers, past winners and honorees of Pulitzer prizes and major national awards.
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