Recipients of the The Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Awards

         Lee Montgomery, Whose World Is This?

2006.  Jim Tomlinson, Things Kept, Things Left Behind
          John Simmons, Permanent Visitors

         Anthony Varallo, This Day in History.

2004.  Janet Desaulniers, What You've Been Missing.
          Merrill Feitell, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes.

2003.  Ryan Harty, Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona.
         Beth Helms, American Wives.

2002.  Jennifer S. Davis, Her Kind of Want.
         Laura Valeri, The Kind of Things Saints Do.

2001.  Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America.
         Donald Anderson, Fire Road.

2000.  Elizabeth Oness, Articles of Faith.
         John McNally, Troublemakers.

1999.  Nancy Reisman, House Fires.
         Thisbe Nissenn, Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night.

1998.  Kathryn Chetkovich, Friendly Fire.
         Mark Brazaitis, The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala.

1997.  Jim Henry, Thank You for Being Concerned and Sensitive.
         Lisa Lenzo, Within the Lighted City.

1996.  David Borofka, Hints of His Mortality.
         Don Zancanella, Western Electric.

1995.  Charles Wyatt, Listening to Mozart.
         Tereze Gluck, May You Live in Interesting Times.

1994.  Susan Onthank Mates, The Good Doctor.
         Rod Val Moore, Igloo among Palms.

1993.  Ann Harleman, Happiness.
         Lex Williford, Macauley's Thumb.
         Renee Manfredi, Where Love Leaves Us.

1992.  Elizabeth Searle, My Body to You.
         Enid Shomer, Imaginary Men.

1991.  Elizabeth Harris, The Ant Generator.
         Sondra Spatt Olsen, Traps.

1990.  Marly Swick, A Hole in the Language.

1989.  Starkey Flythe, Jr., Lent: The Slow Fast.
         Miles Wilson, Line of Fall.

1988.  Sharon Dilworth, The Long White.
         Michael Pritchett, The Venus Tree.

1987.  Abby Frucht, Fruit of the Month.
         Lucia Nevai, Star Game.

1986.  Dan O'Brien, Eminent Domain.
         Russell Working, Resurrectionists.

1985.  Robert Boswell, Dancing in the Movies.

1984.  Susan M. Dodd, Old Wives' Tales.

1983.  Ivy Goodman, Heart Failure.

1982.  Dianne Benedict, Shiny Objects.

1981.  Annabel Thomas, The Phototropic Woman.

1980.  James Fetler, Impossible Appetites.

1979.  Mary Hedin Mary Hedin, Fly Away Home.

1978.  Lon Otto, A Nest of Hooks.

1977.  Pat Carr, The Women in the Mirror.

1976.  C. E. Poverman, The Black Velvet Girl.

1975.  Barry Targan, Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto.

1974.  Natalie L. M. Petesch, After the First Death There Is No Other.

1973.  H. E. Francis, The Itinerary of Beggars.

1972.  Jack Cady, The Burning and Other Stories.

1971.  Philip F. O'Connor, Old Morals, Small Continents, Darker Times.

1970.  Cyrus Colter, The Beach Umbrella.