Jon Woodward
Uncanny Valley
Jon Woodward's previous books are Rain (Wave Books) and Mister Goodbye Easter Island (Alice James Books). He lives in Boston and works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Please visit him at jonwoodward.net.

First Book Competition Runners-Up: as selected by Matthea Harvey

Gale Marie Thompson, Sunderland, MA, Soldier
   On
Rebecca Hazelton, Madison, WI, Fair Copy

Open Book Competition Runners-Up: as selected by Open Book Jury

Jason Bredle, Chicago, Illinois, Carnival
Jeffrey Skinner, Prospect, Kentucky, Glaciology

First Book Competition Finalists

J. Mae Barizo, New York, NY, The Cumulus
   Effect
Emma Bolden, Georgetown, KY, Malificae
Anhvu Buchanan, San Francisco, CA, The Disorder
   Index
Adam Day, Louisville, KY, Before the War
John W. Evans, Stanford, CA, Young Widower
Hannah Gamble, Houston, TX, Your Invitation to a
   Modest Breakfast
Kimberly Grey, Jackson Heights, NY, The Opposite
   of Robot is Light
Eileen G’Sell, St. Louis, MO, Euphoria Takes One
   for the Team
Dan Gutstein, Washington, DC, Cent/R.I.P./et. al.
Kristin Hatch, San Francisco, CA, Sometimes My
   Arms Bend Back
Nicolas Hundley, Austin, TX, The Revolver in the
   Hive
Lily Ladewig, Brooklyn, NY, The Silhouettes
Tanya Larkin, Somerville, MA, My Scarlet Ways
Dawn Lonsinger, Salt Lake City, UT, Whelm
Michael Loughran, Philadelphia, PA, Trouble
   Everywhere
Sierra Nelson, Seattle, WA,The Lachrymose Report
Hannah Sanghee Park, Iowa City, IA, Word of
   [Thee], Worded by [The]
Jeffery Pethybridge, Austin, TX, Striven, the
   Bright Treatise
Brian Russell, Chicago, IL, Nights Under Water
Lauren Shapiro, Madison, WI, Easy Math
Paige Taggart, Brooklyn, NY, To People Who
   Sometimes Read
David Welch, Chicago, IL, Slow Weather Hymnal

Open Book Competition Finalists

Seth Abramson, Madison, WI, Thievery
Samuel Amadon, Houston, TX, The Hartford Book
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, Williamstown, MA, A Slice
   from the Cake Made of Air
Shira Dentz, Salt Lake City, UT, How Do I Net Thee
Johannes Goransson, Mishawaka, IN, Haute
   Surveillance
Noah Eli Gordon, Denver, CO, 63 Problems
Endi Bogue Hartigan, Portland, OR, Chorus
   Interstice
Christopher Janke, Greenfield, MA, Blepharism
Christopher Janke, Greenfield, MA, Psalterium
Charles Jensen, Silver Springs, MD, Nanopedia:
   The Smallest American Reference
Daniel Khalastchi, Milwaukee, WI, Tradition
Ruth Ellen Kocher, Boulder, CO, Goodbye Lyric:
   55 gigans & five notes
Andrew Kozma, Houston, TX, How to Escape from
   a Hotel on Fire
Sarah Messer, Wilmington, NC, Flower of the
   Standard Talking Machine
Danielle Pafunda, Laramie, WY, The Dead Girls
   Speak in Unison
Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Brooklyn, NY, X-ray
Rebecca Reynolds, Highland Park, NJ, A Peril
Peter Jay Shippy, Jamaica Plain, MA, The
   Crocodilist and Other Panics