Terese Marie Mailhot (TereseMarieM) receives $50K U.S. Whiting Award. | cbcbooks
's work has also appeared in The Rumpus, the Los Angeles Times and Carve Magazine. She is a graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the Tecumseh Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University. She currently lives in Indiana.is one of the most important memoirs of the last five years. There is a purity to this nimble, jarring work," said the selection committee.
"Mailhot writes with a fierce and unyielding commitment to creating an unlikeable — which is to say, fully human — female narrator, speaking to a larger project in contemporary memoir. The plot we follow is actually the narrator's own mind; her intelligence, clarity, honesty, and complexity make this story riveting."
The other 2019 recipients are poets Kayleb Rae Candrilli, Tyree Daye and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, fiction writers Hernan Diaz, Nafissa Thompson-Spires and Merritt Tierce, nonfiction writer Nadia Owusu and playwrights Lauren Yee and Michael R. Jackson.
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