Judy Gaines Young Book Award

The Judy Gaines Young Book Award is given annually by Transylvania University to honor the author of a book of distinction written in the Appalachian region in the previous two or three years.[1] The award was endowed in 2015 by Dr. Byron Young, a Lexington-area professor and neurologist, in honor of his late wife.[2]

The program is currently coordinated by Transylvania Professor of English Martha Billips and Poet-in-Residence Maurice Manning.

Winners

Past Nominees

2018

2017

2016

  • Robert Gipe for Trampoline (first nomination)[7]
  • T.J. Jarrett for Zion
  • Jeremy B. Jones for Bearwallow
  • Denton Loving for Crimes Against Birds
  • George Ella Lyon for What Forest Knows

2015

  • Ron Houchin for The Man Who Saws Us in Half[10]
  • George Ella Lyon for Many-Storied House
  • Jeff Daniel Marion for Letters to the Dead
  • Allison Seay for To See the Queen
  • Lee Smith for Guests on Earth

References

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