Washington Writers’ Publishing House is a non-profit literary organization established in 1973 to foster the work of writers in the Washington-Baltimore area, and it sponsors annual prizes in poetry and fiction. The 2019 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize winner, Knapp was awarded the De Novo Poetry Prize in 2010 for The Spite House and in 2018 received the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. In her new collection she considers loss and its many reverberations, an exploration presided over by Emily Dickinson that at last leads Knapp to the recognition that art is a kind of immortality.
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Winner of the 2019 WWPH Fiction award, Leslie, founder and organizer of the Reston Reading Series and publisher and editor of the Maryland Literary Review, is the author of the poetry collection Night Sweat and several books of fiction including include Three Men, Root and Shoot, Sibs, and The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice. His new collection of short stories is written in a darkly humorous vein and features characters ranging from shoplifting teens and self-appointed cops to online stalkers, hug-phobics, and polyamorous gamers.