08/07/2025
🖤✨ What an honor it is to lift up and celebrate these 20 luminous voices. As we continue honoring the 2025 /Nomadic Literary Award recipients, we invite you to slow down, breathe deep, and truly take in this pulse of collective brilliance.
Each name you’ll see in this carousel is a worldbuilder—someone whose words expand what’s possible, challenge the status quo, and tend to the fire of imagination in community.
Let’s celebrate our poetry winners:
Zoe Dorado
Giovanna Lomanto
René Peña-Govea
Darius Simpson
Michael Dean Gallagher
Alie Jones
Alan Pelaez Lopez
Sarah Matsui
Lyn Patterson
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Shelley Wong
Lyzette Wanzer
Aimee Suzara
David Maduli
Our fiction awardees, crafting truth through story:
Hao Tran
Emily Hoang
Taneesh Kaur
Jesus Francisco Sierra
And our nonfiction honorees, bringing clarity and courage to the page:
Maw Shein Win
Pamela Lozoff
To each of you: thank you for your stories, your refusal to stop telling them, your commitment to language as liberation. Your work is urgent, gorgeous, and necessary.
These awards are not merely about recognition—they’re about connection. We honor you not only for what you’ve written, but for what you make possible for others.
🖤 From our community to yours: we see you, we celebrate you, and we’re with you.
