Professor Laird Hunt is among five finalists in the fiction category for his novel Zorrie, from Bloomsbury Publishing, and Desiree Bailey (MFA '15) is short-listed in the poetry category for What Noise Against the Cane, published by Yale.  Professor Emeritus Forrest Gander was long-listed in the poetry category for his book Twice Alive, published by New Directions.  

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, Nov. 17.