Claudia Ann Seaman
Award-Winning Submissions
Volume 15 | 2019-2020
Poetry
Judge: Faisal Mohyuddin
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
Fiction
Judge: Juan Martinez
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
Creative Nonfiction
Judge: Paula Carter
WINNER
RUNNERS-UP
tết, Lydia Wei
Richard Montgomery High School, North Potomac, Maryland
Homecoming, Lilliana Resnikk
Urbana School, Ijamsville, Maryland
ornithology, Isabella Cho
North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, Illinois
Here, Linda Zhang
Horace Greeley High School, Westchester, New York
Red Mouth, Katie Huffman
Campbell High School, Marietta, Georgia
Stuck in Song, Chloe Kerr-Stein
Lowell High School, San Francisco, California
Harvest Plums, Cheryl Chen
Stevenson HS, Lake Forest, Illinois
Disappearing Act, Andrea So
Phillip's Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
One Veined Link, Natalie Mercedes Rodriguez
Riverdale Country School, New York, New York
Claudia Ann Seaman Awards Judges
2019-2020
Faisal Mohyuddin, Poetry
Faisal Mohyuddin is the author of the full-length poetry collection The Displaced Children of Displaced Children (Eyewear Publishing, 2018) and the chapbook The Riddle of Longing (Backbone Press, 2017). His work has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, the Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner, a Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Sexton Prize, and commendations from the Poetry Book Society, the Forward Arts Foundation, and the Association for Asian American Studies. An educator adviser to the global not-for-profit Narrative 4, Faisal teaches English at Highland Park High School in the north suburbs of Chicago. Learn more at www.faisalmohyuddin.com.
Juan Martinez, Fiction
Juan Martinez is the author of Best Worst American. He lives in Chicago and is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, Huizache, Ecotone, NPR's Selected Shorts, Mississippi Review and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in Shenandoah. Say hi at www.fulmerford.com.
Paula Carter, Creative Nonfiction
Paula Carter is the author of the flash memoir No Relation. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, and Creative Nonfiction. She holds an M.F.A. from Indiana University, is a Ragdale alum, and teaches creative nonfiction at Northwestern University.