We are happy to announce that judge Jenn Givhan has selected Patty Crane’s BELL I WAKE TO as the 2018 winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry! Patty will receive $1,000, and her book will be published in the fall of 2019. 

Patty Crane’s award-winning poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Bellevue Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, and West Branch. Her book-length poem, something flown, winner of the 2017 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award Series, was released in October 2018. Her translations of Swedish poet and Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer have appeared in American Poetry Review, Blackbird, PEN Poetry Series, Poetry Daily, and The New York Times, among others. Bright Scythe, a bilingual volume of her translations, was published by Sarabande Press in 2015. Awards include a MacDowell fellowship, Stanford Calderwood fellow, and Atlanta Review International Prize. She lives in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. Learn more at pattycrane.com.

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We would also like to congratulate this year’s finalists:

The Museum of Small Bones by Miho Nonaka
Bramble and Knife by Sara Ryan
Ghost Family by Suzanne Manizza Roszak
The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Insect, Plant, Salt by Karen Pittelman
Dark Picnic by Eric Burger
Permanent and Wonderful Storage by Alec Hershman
The Flesh Between Us by Tory Adkisson
Vs. the World by Ross White
Bells in the Afterlife by Ena Djordjevic
Open Score by Trevor Ketner 
Questions for a Damaged Goddess by Jessica Beyer
Preferred Internal Landscape by Emma Wood
Field Sketch with Man and Passenger Pigeon by Carrie Green
The Weight of Myth by Kristina Bicher
At the End of the Last Ice Age by Maggie Graber
Santa Lucia by Starlight by Michael Pearce
Devil’s Business by Charlie Clark
Special Education by Caroline Mar
Man Matching Description by Andrew Collard
Some Poems About Pictures by Elizabeth Hoover