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Losing Time: AIDS Lessons in Love and Loss

Critique by Jendi Reiter When I picked up Lucien L. Agosta's memoir Losing Time: AIDS Lessons in Love and Loss, the reader in me prepared to savor a gay love story, but the judge in me wondered how this topic could be made fresh. Classics like Paul Monette's Borrowed Time,…

Helen in Trouble

Critique by Jendi Reiter Full of humor, poignancy, and period detail, Wendy Sibbison's historical novel Helen in Trouble depicts a sheltered teen girl discovering her inner resources after an unplanned pregnancy. If only we didn't need a book about obtaining a back-room abortion in 1963 to be our roadmap in…

Happy Harper: Grandpa Comes Home

Critique by Jendi Reiter All of the judges this year loved Kayla Marie Pierre's heartwarming picture book Happy Harper: Grandpa Comes Home, the first installment in a planned series about a biracial Haitian-American girl growing up in Brooklyn. Harper loves new experiences and has a strong attachment to all the…

From Mormon to Mermaid

Critique by Jendi Reiter Lorelei Kay's relatable memoir, From Mormon to Mermaid: One Woman's Voyage from Oppression to Freedom, depicts a feminist awakening that set this devout wife and mother on a stormy but liberating journey away from the religion she once loved. Lest her story be dismissed as one…

Endemic

Critique by Jendi Reiter When you're talking dystopia, there are two kinds of people in the world: preppers or head-in-the-sand types (like me) who say (only half in jest) that we'd rather die than try to survive without flush toilets. So how do you get me to read—and love—a post-apocalyptic…

Echoes of Earth

Critique by Jendi Reiter L. Sue Baugh and Lynn Martinelli traveled to some of the oldest and most remote rock formations in the world to photograph the remarkable landscapes in Echoes of Earth: Finding Ourselves in the Origins of the Planet. Designed and self-published by Baugh, this art book doubles…

Bitter Fruit

Critique by Jendi Reiter Who's here for a deep dive into 12th-century heresies? Definitely me. Whether you've never heard of the Cathars before, or your favorite book in college was Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World (me again), Peggy Ann Barnett's historical novel Bitter Fruit will stir your…

All the Wild and Holy

Critique by Jendi Reiter When the Winning Writers family moved to Northampton twenty years ago, we were intrigued by a plaque in a local history exhibit from the early 18th century: “She married a Savage and became one.” Take a tour of Historic Deerfield, some 16 miles north of our…

Ah, Devon Unbowed

Critique by Jendi Reiter Thomas F. Sheehan is our first repeat North Street winner with Ah, Devon Unbowed, a poetry collection suffused with the stoic and largely unspoken tenderness that men feel for their fathers, brothers, and sons. This reflective book, released in 1979, is voiced by a man who…

Gayle Lauradunn

Gayle Lauradunn's Reaching for Air received Finalist for Best First Book of Poetry (Texas Institute of Letters). All the Wild and Holy: A Life of Eunice Williams, 1696-1785 was awarded Honorable Mention in the May Sarton Poetry Prize. Her third collection, The Geography of Absence, was published in 2022. Her…

Lucien Agosta

Lucien L. Agosta, Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1977. In addition to publishing numerous articles in his field, he is the author of four books: Howard Pyle (G.K. Hall, 1987); E.B. White: The Children's Books (Simon…

Lorelei Kay

Being named after a mermaid—the Lorelei of the River Rhine—empowers Lorelei Kay to embrace her mermaid heritage and create a unique writing style. Lorelei became hooked on writing when her father took her on his knee and helped her create her first poem. Years later she attended Brigham Young University…

Cameron Beach

Cameron Beach is a Young Adult author based in Washington, DC. A graduate of Duke University, she is currently pursuing her JD at the University of Virginia School of Law. As a former journalist and speechwriter, she loves to practice blending true-to-life stories with her fictional characters to create something…

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Wendy Sibbison

Wendy Sibbison was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in 1946, has degrees in English from Barnard College (B.A. 1968) and Columbia University (M.A. 1969), and studied law at Rutgers Law School-Newark (J.D. 1977). She grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where her first novel, Helen in Trouble, loosely…

Danny Gorny

Danny Gorny is a comics creator and freelance writer. In his writing, he explores questions of belonging, society, and the stories we tell about ourselves. A graduate of Carleton University, he holds a degree in English Literature, as well as a graduate degree in Medieval Studies from the University of…

Alicia Czechowski

Alicia Czechowski is a painter and draftsman, occasional sculptor and illustrator. She is so far from being a best-selling author as to be almost the inverse. With Paisley Invasion, a graphic novel/coloring book, her pictorial writing aims to actualize the concept that a picture is worth a thousand words (at…

E.G. Radcliff

E.G. Radcliff is a part-time pooka and native of the Unseelie Court. She collects acorns, glass beads, and pretty rocks, and the crows outside her house know her as She Who Has Bread. Her fantasy novels are crafted in the dead of night after offering sacrifices of almonds and red…

Peggy Ann Barnett

Peggy Ann Barnett is a photographer, poet, and writer of historical fiction. Inspired by her grandmother's storytelling of Germanic folktales, she has always been deeply connected to the Middle Ages and the lives of its characters. “Children inhabit stories told to them, they are real living worlds. I could see…

Robert Chazz Chute

Safely tucked away in his blanket fort in Ontario, Canada, Robert Chazz Chute works as a full-time novelist and occasional book doctor. He is a former science and crime reporter who writes apocalyptic epics with heart and killer crime thrillers with muscle. The North Street Book Prize is his fourth…

Monica Canlas Tuy & Eric Tuy

Monica Canlas Tuy and Eric Tuy are proud Filipino-Americans born into big families that enjoy spending time together. They wrote their picture book My Pinsans and Me to celebrate their family bonds and childhood memories to share with their daughter, Amara. Monica's weekly visits with her cousins to see Lola…

Cathy Kreutter

Cathy Kreutter is a retired teacher and librarian turned author and publisher who has spent the last 40 years living in Uganda, a place she currently calls home. During her 26-year career as an International School teacher-librarian, she spent years reading aloud wonderful books from all over the world to…

Kayla Marie Pierre

M. Michelle Derosier (pen name Kayla Marie Pierre) is here to make a difference in her world for Christ. She is an ed-tech nonprofit professional driven to leverage technology to ensure that students in under-resourced schools have access to opportunities for success and the support system to leverage them. She…

William Guion

Photographer and writer William Guion has photographed the landscape and live oak trees of Louisiana for more than 40 years. His goal is to show the importance of the Southern live oak as an essential part of the history, culture, and ecology of the South. His writings and photographs about…

L. Sue Baugh

L. Sue Baugh grew up in rural Illinois, surrounded by woodlands and prairie. There she found her theme of our deep connection to nature in its many dimensions. As that open land began to disappear under development, Ms. Baugh decided to find landscapes that most resembled Earth long before we…

Tonia Shimin

As a dancer Tonia Shimin performed in the companies of Martha Graham, Jose Limón, Pearl Lang, The Ypsilanti Greek Theater, and as a soloist with Anna Sokolow's Player's Project, Mary Anthony Dance Theater and Repertory West Dance Company. She has had an extensive teaching career in the United States and…

Diane Chiddister

Diane Chiddister is a lifelong journalist and fiction writer. After receiving an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1981, she veered into journalism, having found a profession that actually pays people (though not much!) to write for a living. She worked as a reporter…

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