Previous Winners of the Maurice Prize in Fiction
2020
Author: Laura Marsh (B.S. Animal Behavior, '85)
Title: SAV AGE(S)
2019
Author: Peter Shahrokh (English, M.A., '75; PhD '83; MBA '99)
Title: A Wind Will Come
2018 No prize awarded (program hiatus)
2017
Author: Ben Hinshaw
Title: Exactly What You Mean, A Novel in Stories
Judge: Samantha Dunn
2016
Author: Megan Cummins
Title: Beasts
Judge: Bich Minh Nguyen
2015
Author: Reema Rajbanshi
Title: Sugar, Smoke, Song
Judge: Ramona Ausubel
2014
Author: Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Title: Poor as You Are, My Heart, Don’t Grieve Here in Earth
Judge: Manuel Muñoz
2013
Author: Naomi Williams
Title: Landfalls (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (August 4th, 2015)
Judge: Josh Weil
2012
Author: Cora Stryker
Title: The Evolution of Flight
Judge: Christian Kiefer
2011
Author: Maria Kuznetsova
Title: The Accident
Judge: Summer Wood
2010
Author: Melinda Moustakis
Title: Bear Down, Bear North (University of Georgia Press, 2011)
Judge: Benjamin Percy
2009
Author: Angie Chau
Title: A Map Back to You (released as Quiet As They Come, by IG Publishing, 2010)
Judge: Robin Romm
2008
Author: Melanie Thorne
Title: Hand Me Down (Dutton,2012)
Judge: Clifford Chase
2007
Author: Elizabeth Chamberlin
Title: these people, they crawl all over the place
Judge: Fenton Johnson