JoeAnn Hart, Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, by JoeAnn Hart, won the 2022 Hudson Prize, sponsored by Black Lawrence Press. In this collection of short fiction, characters struggle with Covid, ecological destruction, and grief as they attempt to find solace and restoration from a nature that is not always in a position to give back. JoeAnn Hart is the author of the books Stamford ’76, Float, and Addled. She lives in Gloucester.

Sara Johnson Allen, was raised (mostly) in North Carolina. Her first novel, Down Here We Come Up, is the winner of the 2022 Big Moose Prize and is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in August 2023.