The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 ASAIL awards. All nominees are listed below with the winners marked in bold.
The Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Monograph
- Lisa Tatonetti, Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
- Miriam C. Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction (Michigan State University Press, 2021)
- Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Remembering Our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
- Emil’ Keme, Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
The Beatrice Medicine Award for Best Published Essay
- Laura Furlan, “The Archives of Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians” (Studies in American Indian Literatures 33.1-2, 2021)
- Lisa Tatonetti, “Joyful Embodiment: Felt Theory and Indigenous Trans Perspectives in the Work of Max Wolf Valerio” (Transmotion 7.1, 2021)
- James Mackay, “‘#morelove. always’ Reading Smokii Sumac’s Transmasculine First Nations Poetry on and beyond Social Media” (Transmotion 7.1, 2021)
- Isabel Lockhart, “Urgency, Action, and Grounded Aesthetics in Warren Cariou’s Tar Sands Texts” (Transmotion 7.2, 2021)
The Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories
- Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Sacred City (U of New Mexico Press, 2021)
- Stephen Graham Jones and Maria Wolf, Memorial Ride (University of New Mexico Press, 2021)
- Edison Eskeets and Jim Kristofic, Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk (University of New Mexico Press, 2021)
- Esther Belin, Jeff Berglund, Connie Jacobs, and Anthony Webster, editors. The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature (University of Arizona Press, 2021)
The Carter Revard Legacy Award for Best Edited Collection
- Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson, editors. Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts (Michigan State University Press, 2021)
- Lawrence Gross, editor, Native American Rhetoric (University of New Mexico Press, 2021)
- Jennifer Adese and Chris Andersen, editors, A People and a Nation: New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies (University of British Columbia Press, 2021)
Call for 2023 Nominees
The form for 2023 nominations is also now open! If you know of a work published within the 2022 calendar year that you’d like to nominate for any of these prizes, please do so using the form on this page. Questions can be directed to Jeremy Carnes at jeremy.carnes@ucf.edu.