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Ocean Vuong and Karen Skolfield (MFA '98) Win Massachusetts Book Awards
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Ocean Vuong, faculty in the English Department and in the MFA for Poets and Writers, has been awarded the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction for his novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous.
Karen Skolfield (MFA '98) has won the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry for her collection, Battle Dress: Poems. Last year, Skolfield was additionally named poet laureate in Northampton, MA.
The Massachusetts Center for the Book has announced the winners of the 20th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards. The awards recognize achievement in five categories of literature written by current residents of the state.