Western States Book Award Western States Book Award honored notable works of fiction, creative nonfiction , poetry, and translation written and published in the Western United States . The award was given annually from 1984 until 2002. Lifetime-achievement awards were also presented.Winners Fiction 1984 : The iguana killer: twelve stories of the heart by Alberto Rios 1986 : My amputations: a novel by Clarence Major 1988 : Sailing to Corinth: stories by Irene Wanner 1990 : The devil in Texas Aristeo Brito 1992 : Little altars everywhere: a novel by Rebecca Wells 1993 : The hedge, the ribbon: a novel by Carol Orlock 1994 : MotherTongue by Demetria Martinez 1996 : A killing in New Town by Kate Horsley 1998 : The flower in the skullKathleen Alcalá 1999 : The blossom festival by Lawrence Coates 1999 : Men on the moon: collected short stories Simon Ortiz 2000 : Straight white male by Gerald Haslam 2001 : The road builderNicholas Hershenow Poetry 1984 : In all the rooms of the yellow house by Nancy Mairs 1984 : New as a wave: a retrospective , 1937-1983 by Eve Triem 1986 : Time and the white tigress by Mary Barnard 1988 : Desire: selected poems, 1963-1987 by David Bromige 1990 : New poems , 1980-88John Haines 1992 : My name is William Tell: poems by William Stafford 1993 : August zero by Jane Miller 1994 : The fever of being by Luis Alberto Urrea 1995 : My town by David Lee 1996 : Flying over Sonny Liston: poems by Gary Short1998 : Four-year-old-girl by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge 1999 : Communion by Primus St. John2000 : The brink by Peter Sears 2001 : Bitters by Rebecca Seiferle 2001 : Cool, calm, & collected: poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer Creative nonfiction 1984 : A heaven in the eye by Clyde Rice 1986 : The seventh dragon: the riddle of equal temperament by Anita Sullivan : Having everything right: essays of place by Kim R. Stafford 1988 : Mayordomo: chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico by Stanley Crawford 1990 : The telling distance: conversations with the American desert by Bruce Berger 1992 : Going back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton : Fruit fields in my blood: Okie migrants in the West by Toby F. Sonneman 1993 : Two old women: an Alaska legend of betrayal, courage, and survival by Velma Wallis 1994 : Iron house: stories from the yard by Jerome Washington 1995 : Borneo log: the struggle for Sarawak's forests by William Bevis 1995 : Downcanyon: a naturalist explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon by Ann Haymond Zwinger 1996 : Wisdom sits in places: language and landscape among the Western Apache by Keith Basso 1998 : Chokecherry places: essays from the high plains by Merrill Gilfillan 1999 : Salt dreams: land & water in low-down California by William Debuys 2000 : In these hills by Ralph Beer 2001 : My story as told by water: confessions, Druidic rants, reflections, bird-watchings, fish-stalkings, visions, songs and prayers refracting light, from living rivers, in the age of the industrial dark by David James Duncan Translation 2000 : The collected songs of Cold Mountain by Hanshan; translated from the Chinese by Red Pine 2001 : The silk dragon: translations from the Chinese translated by Arthur Sze Lifetime Achievement 1984 : Eve Triem in poetry1990 : John Hainesin poetry1992 : William Stafford in poetry1999 : Simon Ortiz in fiction2001 : Carolyn Kizer in poetry
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