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2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalists & Winners

This is the 16th annual book awards program featuring the best books from New Mexico and Arizona authors and publishers. This year, 64 winners have been selected in 48 categories. In addition, 83 finalists have been selected. There were just short of 800 entries this year; this is down a little less than 20% from last year, which appears to be mostly due to the COVID crisis which has caused fewer books to be released and distributed during this period. One-third of all the entries in 2020 were entered in fiction categories. Seven percent of the entries were in poetry categories. Due to the COVID crisis there will not be a banquet to announce winners this year so all the winners and finalists are being announced at the same time.

ANIMAL/PETS

WINNER

CL Anderson The View from My Old Saddle Moonlight Mesa Associates

FINALIST

Judy Pearson The Dog Days of Dixon Happy Rat Studio

ANTHOLOGY/FICTION

WINNERS (tie)

Carmen Baca Cuentos del Cañón Clarendon House Publications

Susan Budavari and Merle McCann Beyond the Broken Door Twisted Vine

FINALISTS

Corrales Writing Group Kale is a Four-Letter Word Artemesia Publishing

Gloria O’Shields, ed. Into the West San Juan Writers

SinC Desert Sleuths SoWest: Ladykillers DS Publishing

ARTS

WINNERS (tie)

Steve Mulligan Prehistoric Suns Fresco Books

Devorah Romanek Hardship, Greed & Sorrow Univ of OK Press

FINALISTS

Hakim Bellamy We Are Neighbors

M. Chase-Daniel, J. Wellman, and J. Wheeler E Pluribus Unum: New Mexico Southeast Axle Contemporary

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR

WINNERS (tie)

Elizabeth Bernays Six Legs Walking Raised Voice Press

Jim Kristofic Reservation Restless UNM Press

FINALISTS

Joan Brooks Baker The Magnolia Code Fresco Books

Jack Loeffler Headed into the Wind UNM Press

BILINGUAL CHILDREN'S

WINNER

Rudolfo Anaya No More Bullies Museum of NM Press

BIOGRAPHY AZ

WINNER

Chris Enss According to Kate Two Dot Books

BIOGRAPHY NM

WINNER

Jaima Chevalier Fringe Atomic City Lights Publishers

BODY, MIND & SPIRIT

WINNER

Janis Gonzales Lessons from a Gentle Life Heart Stone Press

FINALISTS

Roxanne Howe-Murphy Deep Living with the Enneagram Enneagram Press

Jim Linnell Take It Lying Down Paul Dry Press

Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro Yogini: Ageless Women, Timeless Tradition

Ross Van Dusen More Random Thoughts

BUSINESS

WINNER

RE Rokosz Masson's Laws GloryBound Publishing

CHILDREN'S PICTURE

WINNER

Whitney Spivey Goodnight, Los Alamos

FINALIST

Barbara Matthews Benge Robinette Redbreast and the PEPPER Flake Escape Wing and a Prayer Publishing

COFFEE TABLE

WINNER

Rosalyn Roembke Hurley The Life and Art of Wilson Hurley Fresco Books

COOKBOOK

WINNER

Lisa and Tom Perini w. Cheryl A. Jamison Perini Ranch Steakhouse Comanche Moon Publishing

FINALIST

Astrid Tuttle Winegar A Year of Comfy, Cozy Soups, Stews & Chilis Multitudes Press

CRAFTS

WINNER

Rose Kern Creating Microclimates for High Desert Gardening RMK Publications

FINALISTS

Megan Baldrige Alterknitive Facts Jules Poetry Playhouse

Megan Baldrige Knitigating Circumstances Jules Poetry Playhouse

eBook FICTION

WINNER

Robert Kidera Midnight Blues Suspense Publishing

FINALIST

Joseph VanZutphen Child of Sonora

eBook NONFICTION

WINNER

Elizabeth Randolph Deep Down & Dirty Writing Secrets

FINALIST

Gary & Elaine Montague Victory from the Shadows ABQ Press

FICTION ADVENTURE/DRAMA

WINNERS (tie)

Joseph Badal Justice Suspense Publishing

Brinn Colenda Homeland Burning Southern Yellow Pine Publishing

FINALISTS

Dan Baldwin Sparky and the Beard Four Knights Press

Charlene Bell Dietz The Scientist, the Physic, and the Nut Quill Mark Press

W. Michael Farmer Blood-Soaked Earth Gale Cengage

Dennis Jung The Angel's Chair

FICTION COZY

WINNER

Vicky Ramakka The Cactus Plot Artemesia Publishing

FINALISTS

L. Mad Hildebrandt It's Marple, Dear Rose Quill Press

Patricia Smith Wood Murder at the Petrogylphs Aakenbaaken & Kent

FICTION CRIME

WINNERS (tie)

Peter Riva Kidnapped on Safari Skyhorse Publishing

Ross Van Dusen Follow the Money

FINALISTS

Leo Banks Champagne Cowboys Brash Books

Geoff Habiger & Coy Kissee Untouchable Artemesia Publishing

Jonathan Miller Navajo Repo Special Edition Nightstalker Press

FICTION HISTORICAL ARIZONA

WINNER

Bruce Wilson No Place That Far Artemesia Publishing

FINALISTS

P. Grady Cox Hellgate Five Star/Cengage

Jodi Stewart The Accidental Road Five Star Press

FICTION HISTORICAL NEW MEXICO

WINNER

Rosemary Zibart Beatrice On Her Own Artemesia Publishing

FINALISTS

W. Michael Farmer Blood-Soaked Earth Gale Cengage

W. Michael Farmer The Last Warrior Gale Cengage

FICTION HISTORICAL OTHER

WINNER

Kari Bovée Grace in the Wings Bosque Publishing

FINALISTS

Barbara Marriott Neptune's Daughters CATYMATT Productions

Amber Polo The Pharaoh & the Librarian Wordshaping Press

FICTION LITERARY

WINNER

Paul Semendinger Scattering the Ashes Artemesia Publishing

FINALISTS

Joseph Ferguson The Roads Around Perdido Sunstone Press

Mary Maurice The Suicide Letters of Jack Monroe Silver Leaf Books

Barbara Patterson The Ranch Wife CE Productions

FICTION MYSTERY

WINNERS (tie)

J & D Burges Coyote Alibi Naaltsoos Press

Karen Odden A Trace of Deceit William Morrow

FINALISTS

Joseph Badal Natural Causes Suspense Publishing

Janet Greger A Pound of Flesh, Sorta Bug Press

Merle McCann The Parmeter File Twisted Vine

FICTION SCI FI

WINNERS (tie)

Scooter Duff Gut 4.0

Ross Van Dusen Space Junk

FINALISTS

Weston Ochse Dead Sky Solaris Books

Kayt Peck The Past and the Present Sapphire Books

Ricardo Victoria Tempest Blades Artemesia Publishing

FICTION OTHER

WINNERS (tie)

Dan Baldwin A Sack of Fried Okra Four Knights Press

Kris Neri Hopscotch Life Cherokee McGhee Publishing

FINALISTS

Sally Harper Bates It Only Takes One

Angella Cormier and Pierre Arseneault Oakwood Island: The Awakening Artemesia Publishing

FIRST BOOK AZ

WINNER

Myles Schrag, Julie Hammonds, ed. To Imogene, a Flagstaff Love Letter Soulstice Publishing

FINALIST

Nolon Savas Shadowdancer Pariah Press

FIRST BOOK NM

WINNER

Liddie Martinez The Chile Line Pajarito Press

FINALISTS

Kristina Caffrey The Carriers

Abbey Carpenter The Tortilla Star Black Rose Writing

Cathy Chavez Hold Every Moment Sacred

LGBTQ

WINNER

Charles Milhaupt And For All the Sins I Cannot Recall Merimee Moffitt

FINALIST

Stephen Van Dyck People I've Met From the Internet Richochet Editions

HISTORY ARIZONA

WINNER

Jim Kristofic Medicine Women UNM Press

FINALIST

Diana Hinojosa Delugan Terrenos: Otero Land Grant Arizonac Publishing

HISTORY NEW MEXICO

WINNER

Kris Thacher, ed. Timelines of the East Mountains East Mountain Historical Society

FINALIST

Moises Gonzales, Enrique LaMadrid, eds. Nación Genízara UNM Press

HISTORY OTHER

WINNER

Roberta Summers Fatal Winds

FINALISTS

John Bisney and JL Pickering The Space-Age Presidency UNM Press

Sherri Burr Complicated Lives Carolina Academic Press

W. Michael Farmer Geronimo, Prisoner of Lies Rowman & Littlefird Publishing

John Kincheloe Rediscovering Christanna Spirit Lines Press

JUVENILE

WINNER

Richard Melzer and John Taylor Heroes of the Rio Abajo Valencia County Historical Society

FINALIST

RJ Mirabal Trixie Finds Her People High Desert Libris

MULTICULTURAL

WINNER

Ann Dallman Cady and the Bear Necklace Henschel Haus Books

FINALISTS

Judy Garcia Abstracts of a South Valley Nuevomexicana Alderetegarcia Publishing

Ann Murdy On the Path of Marigolds George F Thompson Publishing

NATURE

WINNER

Philip Metcalf and Patricia Galagan Fire Ghosts George F Thompson Publishing

FINALISTS

Anne Taylor and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson The Legacy of La Luz Sunstone Press

George C. West Guide to the Plants of Arizona's White Mountains UNM Press

PARENTING/FAMILY

WINNER

Gary and Elaine Montague Victory from the Shadows ABQ Press

PHILOSOPHY

WINNER

John Jenkins Come Walk with Me Amber Polo

POETRY ARIZONA

WINNERS (tie)

Sarah Kortemeier Ganbatte Univ of Wisconsin Press

Jami Macarty The Minuses The Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University

FINALIST

Sally Harper Bates Pencil Tracks

POETRY NEW MEXICO

WINNERS (tie)

Kyce Bello Refugia Uni of NV Press

Ioanna Carlsen Breather Grid Books

Gary Worth Moody The Burnings 3: A Taos Press

FINALISTS

Carol Alena Aronoff Tapestry of Secrets Finishing Line Press

Renny Golden The Music of Her Rivers: Poems UNM Press

Barbara Rockman to cleave:poems UNM Press

Catherine Strisik Insectum Gravitis Main Street Rag

Leslie Ullman The You That All Along Has Housed You Nine Mile Art Corp

SA Young At Her Nibs' Ends David Dunn

POETRY ANTHOLOGY

WINNER

Tina Carlson, Stella Reed,

Katherine DiBella Seluja We Are Meant to Carry Water 3Taos Press

FINALIST

Sally Harper Bates Facing West Vol Two

POLITICAL

WINNER

M. Otero, D. Meishen, S. Wiggerman, eds. 22 Poems & a Prayer for El Paso Dos Gatos Press

RELIGION

WINNERS (tie)

Harry James Fox and Lucia Mudgway A Fire in the West Foxware Publishing LLC 

Ron Duncan Hart Jews and the Arab World Institute for Tolerance Studies

FINALISTS

Anna Nogar Quill and Cross in the Borderlands Univ of Notre Dame Press

GUIDES

WINNER

Tamara Massong Sunday Drives Rio Grande Books

FINALISTS

Toby Heathcotte, ed. Women Wronged Mardel Books

Allegra Huston How to Edit and Be Edited Twice 5 Miles

James Navé and Allegra Huston How to Read for an Audience Twice 5 Miles

RECREATION

WINNER

Mike Coltrin Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide UNM Press

FINALIST

John C. Barnes Same Players, Different Game UNM Press

TRAVEL

WINNERS (tie)

Roger Naylor Arizona State Parks UNM Press

Sharon Niederman Backroads & Byways of New Mexico Countryman Press

YOUNG ADULT

WINNER

Jennifer Edelson Between Wild & Ruin Bad Apple Books

FINALIST

W. Michael Farmer Geronimo, Prisoner of Lies TwoDot/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing

COVER DESIGN 6x9

WINNER

Myles Schrag, Julie Hammonds, ed. To Imogene, a Flagstaff Love Letter Soulstice Publishing

BEST ARIZONA BOOK

J and D Burges Coyote Alibi Naaltsoos Press

BEST NEW MEXICO BOOK

Philip Metcalf and Patricia Galagan Fire Ghosts George F Thompson Publishing

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