Colin Cheney ’96 Wins Prestigious National Literary Award

Colin Cheney ’96 was awarded a prestigious 2010 Pushcart Prize—a prize that has honored some of America’s foremost writers since 1976—for his poem “Lord God Bird.” Winners of the Pushcart Prize appear in an annual anthology of stories, poems, essays and memoirs selected from hundreds of small magazines and presses throughout the world. The Pushcart Prize collection series was founded by Bill Henderson and a group of founding editors that included Paul Bowles, Ralph Ellison, Joyce Carol Oates and Reynolds Price.

The annual Pushcart Prize collection has been called “The ex-officio house organ for the American literary cosmos,” by the Chicago Tribune. The New York Times calls the publication “a distinguished annual literary event.” Each Pushcart Prize edition features works by about sixty authors from dozens of presses. Little magazine and small book press editors may make up to six nominations each year for the collection, and selections are chosen by Pushcart’s staff of distinguished Contributing Editors.

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