First Place
Kevin B. Roose ’09.5
“The Workers are Few”
Kevin Roose is a technology columnist at The New York Times, and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. He is a New York Times bestselling author of two books, Young Money and The Unlikely Disciple, and has a new book, Futureproof, coming out in May. He is a regular guest on "The Daily" and other national news programs, and lives in the Bay Area.

Second Place​
Noam Dorr ’09
“Wouldn’t It”
Noam Dorr is the author of Love Drones (Sarabande Books), which was recently featured in Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the best debut nonfiction books of 2019. Born and raised in Kibbutz Givat Haim, Israel, he is a former Fulbright scholar and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. Dorr is currently a doctoral candidate in the Literature and Creative Writing Ph.D. program at the University of Utah.

Honorable Mention
Sandra Allen '09
"The Problem with the Writer"
Sandy Allen is an author and speaker based in the Catskills. Their first book, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia (Scribner), was named one of the best nonfiction books of 2018 by Esquire. Sandy's essays and features have been published by venues such as BuzzFeed News, Pop-Up Magazine, Guernica, Gay Magazine, Bon Appétit's Healthyish, the podcast 99% Invisible, and them., where they write a column called Between the Binary.