The Pinch Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry 2012

Sponsored by the Hohenberg Foundation

Fiction Judge

JUSTIN TORRES was raised in upstate New York. His work has appeared in Granta, Tin House, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and Glimmer Train. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was the recipient of a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Among many other things, he has worked as a farmhand, a dog walker, a creative writing teacher, and a bookseller.

Poetry Judge

NICKY BEER is the author of The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010), winner of the 2011 Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a scholarship and a fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Campbell Corner Prize, and a Discovery/The Nation Award. She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she co-edits the literary journal Copper Nickel.