We are thrilled to announce that Tammy Delatorre's "I Am Coming for You" is this year's winner in the Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, chosen by Sarah Gerard. Congratulations!
In addition to a $500 prize, Delatorre's winning work will appear in CutBank 89, our summer 2018 issue.
Tammy Delatorre lives in Los Angeles. Her writing has received numerous literary awards, including the Payton Prize and the Slippery Elm Prose Prize. More of her essays and stories can be found at www.tammydelatorre.com.
Follow Delatorre on Twitter @tammydelatorre, and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tammy.delatorre.1
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Judge Sarah Gerard had this to say about Delatorre's work:
“I Am Coming for You” is a bloody, vivid, gut-wrenching account of inherited violence, abandonment, and reckoning. It’s the kind of story that demands to be told in spite of, or maybe because of, the courage it takes to write it. Rage and sadness pulse through it like a heartbeat through an umbilical cord.
Judge Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, the novel Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times first fiction prize, and two chapbooks, most recently BFF. Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Baffler, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other journals, as well as anthologies. She’s been supported by fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Tin House, PlatteForum, Ucross, and Pocoapoco. She writes a monthly column for Hazlitt and teaches writing in New York City.
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We also send warm thanks to all the fine nonfiction authors who entered this year, and a special congratulations to all our finalists:
- Melissa Connelly
- Charlotte Gullick
- Kristin Keane
& - Jacquelyn Connelly