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.