Western States Book Award

Western States Book Award was awarded annually in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and translation until 2003. Lifetime-achievement awards were also presented.

Winners

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Fiction

1984: The iguana killer: twelve stories of the heart by Alberto Rios
1986: My amputations: a novel by Clarence Major
1988: Sailing to Corinth: stories by Irene Wanner
1990: The devil in Texas (El Diablo en Texas) by Aristeo Brito
1992: Little altars everywhere: a novel by Rebecca Wells
1993: The hedge, the ribbon: a novel by Carol Orlock
1994: MotherTongue by Demetria Martinez
1996: A killing in New Town by Kate Horsley
1998: The flower in the skull by Kathleen Alcalá
1999: The blossom festival by Lawrence Coates
1999: Men on the moon: collected short stories by Simon Ortiz
2000: Straight white male by Gerald Haslam
2001: The road builder by Nicholas Hershenow

Poetry

1984: In all the rooms of the yellow house by Nancy Mairs
1984: New as a wave: a retrospective, 1937-1983 by Eve Triem
1986: Time and the white tigress by Mary Barnard
1988: Desire: selected poems, 1963-1987 by David Bromige
1990: New poems, 1980-88 by John Haines
1992: My name is William Tell: poems by William Stafford
1993: August zero by Jane Miller
1994: The fever of being by Luis Alberto Urrea
1995: My town by David Lee
1996: Flying over Sonny Liston: poems by Gary Short
1998: Four-year-old-girl by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
1999: Communion by Primus St. John
2000: The brink by Peter Sears
2001: Bitters by Rebecca Seiferle
2001: Cool, calm, & collected: poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer

Creative nonfiction

1984: A heaven in the eye by Clyde Rice
1986: The seventh dragon: the riddle of equal temperament by Anita Sullivan
(citation for merit) Having everything right: essays of place by Kim R. Stafford
1988: Mayordomo: chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico by Stanley Crawford
1990: The telling distance: conversations with the American desert by Bruce Berger
1992: Going back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton
(citation for merit) Fruit fields in my blood: Okie migrants in the West by Toby F. Sonneman
1993: Two old women: an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage, and survival by Velma Wallis
1994: Iron house: stories from the yard by Jerome Washington
1995: Borneo log: the struggle for Sarawak's forests by William Bevis
1995: Downcanyon: a naturalist explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon by Ann Haymond Zwinger
1996: Wisdom sits in places: language and landscape among the Western Apache by Keith Basso
1998: Chokecherry places: essays from the high plains by Merrill Gilfillan
1999: Salt dreams: land & water in low-down California by William Debuys
2000: In these hills by Ralph Beer
2001: My story as told by water: confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark by David James Duncan

Translation

2000: The collected songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan; translated from the Chinese by Red Pine
2001: The silk dragon: translations from the Chinese translated by Arthur Sze

Lifetime Achievement

1984: Eve Triem in poetry
1990: John Hainesin poetry
1992: William Stafford in poetry
1999: Simon Ortiz in fiction
2001: Carolyn Kizer in poetry