The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Prize for Creative Nonfiction has been awarded to Wang Pin for Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi (forthcoming from Calumet Press)

Winner: Wang Ping
Judge: Gretel Ehrlich 

Presented: March 2017

Wang Ping is a poet writer, photographer, performance and multimedia artist. Her publications have been translated into multiple languages and include poetry, short stories novels, cultural studies, and children’s stories. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is a professor of English at Macalester College and founder of Kinship of Rivers project.