2023 WLA Award Recipients

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• 2023 WLA Award Recipients

Distinguished Achievement Award

For an influential scholar or creative writer in western American literature

Mark Trahant, Editor-at-Large for Indian Country

Delbert & Edith Wylder Award

For outstanding service to the association

Susan Bernardin, Oregon State University

Thomas J. Lyon Book Award

For most outstanding book published last year in western American literary and cultural studies

Chadwick Allen, University of Washington
for Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts
(University of Minnesota Press)

and

Christine Bold, University of Guelph
for "Vaudeville Indians" on Global Circuits, 1880s-19030s (Yale University Press)

Don D. Walker Prize

For best essay published in western American literary studies in 2022

Timothy Foster, independent scholar, and John Beusterien,
Texas Tech University for "The Thirsty Llano Estacado:
The Manuel Maés Ballad Corpus,"
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1–2 (Winter/Spring 2022)

Creative Writing Award

For the best creative writing submission to the conference

Mel Anderson, Idaho State University for "Salt" [End Page 300]

WLA/Charles Redd Center K–12 Teaching Award

Provides teachers with the opportunity to attend and present at the WLA Conference;
sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and the WLA

Emily Ward, Rockland High School for
"Shoshone-Bannock History and Native American Policy"

J. Golden Taylor Award

For best essay presented at the conference by a graduate student

Patrick Vincent, University of California, Riverside
for "'Mi Tierra Es Su Tierra / Mi Mundo Es Su Mundo':
Performance, Neoliberalism, and the West In Tropic of Orange"

Dorys Crow Grover Awards

For outstanding papers presented at the conference by graduate
students who contribute to our critical understandings of region, place,
and space in western American literatures

Brian Arechiga, University of Southern California
for "There There and Modes of Simulacra Resistance"

and

Lauren White, University of Southern California for
"Little Edens: Exploring Missionary Projects and National Parks
in The Surrounded"

Louis Owens Awards

For graduate student presenters contributing exceptional scholarship
and expanding diversity in the association

Mathilde Magga, University of Washington for
"The Impossibility of the Novel: Exploring Temporality
and Form in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus"

and

Vanessa Ramirez, University of North Texas for
"Port Houston: In this Hood, We, Latinx, Break Statistics" [End Page 301]

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