First Book Award Winners: Prose

2007       Mary Lockwood (Malemuit Inupiaq), Attugu Summa/Come and See What It Is
2006       Judy R. Smith (Quinnipiac, Mohican), Yellowbird
               
Frederick White (Haida), Welcome to the City of Rainbows

2005       Mia Heavener (Central Yup'ik), Tundra Berries
2004       Kimberly G. Roppolo (Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek), Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing and
                        Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics

2003       Susan Supernaw (Creek-Munsee), The Power of a Name
2002       Edythe S. Hobson (Arkansas Quapaw), An Inquest Every Sunday
2001       Valerie Red Horse (Cherokee), Naturally Native
2000       Chip Livingston (Creek, Poarch Band), Naming Ceremony
1999       Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta-San Juan Pueblo), Time and Chance, U of Arizona Press
1998       No Award
1997       Robert J. Perry (Chickasaw), Life With the Little People, Greenfield Review Press
                D. L. Birchfield (Choctaw-Chickasaw), The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test, Greenfield Review Press

1996       No Award
1995       Glenn J. Twist (Cherokee-Creek), Boston Mountain Tales, Greenfield Review Press
1994       Gus Palmer (Kiowa), Calling Through the Creek, U of Arizona Press
1993      
Philip H. Red-Eagle (Sioux-Klallam), Red Earth, Holy Cow! Press
1992       Robert L. Perea (Pine Ridge Sioux), Stacy's Story [Fiction], West End Press
                Melissa Jayne Fawcett (Mohegan), The Lastiong of the Mohegans [Nonfiction], The MoheganTribe
                William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine), The Star Quilter [Drama], (Unpublished)