In Which We Raise the Roof for Samantha Giles, Winner of California Book Awards Gold Medal

The Commonwealth Club of California announced the winners of 2018 California Book Awards in Poetry, First Fiction, Non-Fiction, Californiana, Juvenile, and Fiction yesterday and the winner of the 2018 California Book Award in Poetry is Samantha Giles! This year marks the 88th anniversary of the awards. 

The annual California Book Awards, which began in 1931, recognize the state’s best writers and illuminate the wealth and diversity of literature written in California. Monetary prizes are given in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, juvenile literature, young adult literature, first work of fiction, Californiana and notable contribution to publishing.

POETRY
Gold Medal: Total Recall, by Samantha Giles, Krupskaya
 
Finalist
Cenzontle, by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, BOA Editions, Ltd. 
Isako Isako, by Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Alice James Books
Vigilance Is No Orchard, by Hazel White, Nightboat Books

Congratulations to Samantha Giles and to all of this year's winners and finalists!