Winners of the 2009 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Karen Hays, "Dear Martlet"
Runner-up
Mathias Svalina, "War Games: Instructions"

Poetry
First Prize
Anne Marie Rooney, "What my heart is turning," "Where my heart is going," "Elegy in which I am not whisked away"
Runner-up
Jennifer Militello, "A Dictionary of Wooing and Desperation in the Voice of the Sociopath," "A Dictionary of What Can Be Learned in the Voice of the Sociopath's Lover," "A Dictionary of the Symphony in the Voice of Beethoven"

Fiction
First Prize
Tricia Springstubb, "In the Dark"
Runner-up
Priscilla Sneff, "The Purification of Ben Matthews"

Winners of the 2008 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Nancy Geyer, "Where the Children Are"
Runner-up
Alexis Nelson

Poetry
First Prize
Dave Snyder, "Bamboo Poem"
Runners-up
Mary Austin Speaker, Stephen Gibson

Fiction
First Prize
Andrew Mortazavi, "Stop Six, Ft. Worth"
Runner-up
Jacob M. Appel

Winners of the 2007 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Diane Sullivan Mertens, "Tuesdays"
Runner-up
Naomi Wax

Poetry
First Prize
John Colasacco, "Non-Arson Sonnets" and "Naked Women of North America"
Runners-up
Mary Flanagan, Nancy Kathleen Pearson

Fiction
First Prize
Randi Faus, "Displacement"
Runners-up
Erin Soros, Lidia Yuknavitch

Winners of the 2006 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Bonnie J. Rough, "The Birdmen"
Runners-up
Abraham Brennan, Miho Nonaka, Sandra Novack

Poetry
First Prize
Margaret Monaghan, "Delft Farm," "Night of Terrible Ending," "Why People Put Each Other on Watches," "Field of Seed," "Dresden Stollen"
Runners-up
Allison Benis, Jennifer Chapis, Scott Glassman, Kristina Martinez, Susan McCabe

Fiction
First Prize
Stellar Kim, "Findings & Impressions"
Runners-up
Katherine Gustafson, Adam Hunault

Winners of the 2005 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Mark M. Martin, "Parable"
Runners-up
Laurie Clements Lambeth, Lia Purpura, Gail Waldstein

Poetry
First Prize
Kayoko Wakamatsu, "Floodland"
Runners-up
Jeannette Alleé, Shane Book, Jacqueline Berger, Julianne Buchsbaum, Alexandra Budny, Melanie Drane, Ryan Fox, Roy Jacobstein, David Keplinger, Julia Story, Susan Terris, Katherine E. Young

Fiction
First Prize (co-winners)
Meghan Kenny, "The Driest Season"
Charles McLeod, "Individualized Altimetry of Stripes"

Winners of the 2004 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Maureen Stanton, "Laundry"
Runners-up
Laura S. Distelheim, Lia Purpura

Poetry
First Prize
Kristin Case, "Photographs from Rt. 80," "Critique of Pure Reason," "Housework," "Directive (What Is Poetry?)"
Runners-up
Wilson Diehl, Mary Donnelly, Jeff Fallis, Jannett Highfill, Robert Rehder, Ellen Wehle, Katherine E. Young

Fiction
First Prize
H.G. Carrillo, "Cosas"
Runners-up
Mary Jean Babic, Sandra Park, Jonathan VanBallenberghe

Winners of the 2003 Iowa Review Awards

Nonfiction
First Prize
Sonja Livingston, "Albion Season"
Runners-up
Christine Hemp, Martin Lammon, Lia Purpura

Poetry
First Prize
Susan Thomas, The Empty Notebook Poems
Runners-up
Catherine Barnett, Stacie Cassarino, Christopher Cunningham, Elizabeth Skurnick, D.H. Tracy, Katherine E. Young

Fiction
First Prize
Nona Caspers, "Country Girls"
Runners-up
Robyn Mundy, Jesse Waters

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