Announcing the winner of the 2022 Gerald Cable Book Award
Persephone Heads for the Gate by Merrill Oliver Douglas
Persephone Heads for the Gate by Merrill Oliver Douglas is the winner of the 2022 Gerald Cable Book Award. Rodger Moody was the judge. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Parking Meters into Mermaids (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Baltimore Review, Barrow Street, Tar River Poetry, Stone Canoe, Little Patuxent Review and Whale Road Review, among other journals. Raised in New York City, she holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in English from Binghamton University. She lives near Binghamton, New York, where she runs a freelance writing business.
Finalists:
The Cellist of Kharkiv by Erin Wells
Ghost Ship by Paloma Yannakakis
The Cusp of the Known World: A Field Guide by Amelia Williams
Ghost Camera by David Semanki
Hunting by Brianna Postlewait
Red Chair by Melody Wilson
A Type of Flight by Calvin Olsen
From the Throes of Aporia by Sophia Galifianakis
The Ground Never Lets Go by Liz Marlow
Random Music in a Small Galaxy by Margot Wizansky
Salvage by Hedgie Choi
