First Place

Tucker Lieberman, ’02
“Fifteen Meditations on Masculinist Physico-Spiritual Experience”
Tucker Lieberman lives in Bogotá, Colombia. After studying philosophy and journalism, he worked in technology for an investment company for eleven years. His nonfiction books include the literary criticism Painting Dragons, the memoir Bad Fire, and the biography Ten Past Noon. His short fiction is in the anthologies I Didn’t Break the Lamp and Trans-Galactic Bike Ride. He was born with a deformed hip, has run a half-marathon, and has walked on fire.

Second Place
Kerala Goodkin, ’02
“Immigrants in Action”
Kerala currently works as a Senior Strategist for a marketing agency focused on social impact. Following her graduation from Brown in 2002, she co-founded The Glimpse Foundation, which merged with National Geographic in 2008. Since her time at National Geographic, she has directed digital marketing efforts for a number of nonprofits. A novel that she started at Brown, “How Things Break,” won the Elixir Press Inaugural Fiction Award and was published in 2006. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children.

Honorable Mentions
Harper Alexander
The Anniversary Party”

Anna Henderson, ’03
Dr. Anna Henderson is a scientist and artist who spent the last seven years working in politics. She is the founder of The Nature Library literary art instillation in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her publications have appeared under the name E.A. Farro in The Common, Rumpus, The Kenyon Review, and The Normal School, among others. She is a recipient of a 2010 Loft Literary Center Mentor Award and a 2019 Minnesota State Art Board grant.