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

The short fiction awards are given to a first collection of fiction in English and are administered through the Iowa Writers' Workshop.  The honors are national in scope and have been given since 1969.  The John Simmons Short Fiction Award (named for the first director of the University of Iowa Press) was created in 1988 to complement the existing Iowa Short Fiction Award.

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• 2010
  Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, The Company of Heaven: Stories from Haiti.
  Barbara Hamby, Lester Higata's 20th Century
  
• 2009
  Kathryn Ma, All That Work and Still No Boys.
  Jennine Capo Crucet, How to Leave Hialeah: Stories from the Heart of Miami.
• 2008
  Glen Pourciau, Invite.
  Molly McNett, One Dog Happy.
  

• 2007
  Don Waters, Desert Gothic.

  Lee Montgomery, Whose World Is This?

• 2006
  Jim Tomlinson, Things Kept, Things Left Behind.
  Kevin Moffett, Permanent Visitors.

• 2005
  Doug Trevor, The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space.
  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
  Mary 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, 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.