Recipient of the Gerald Cable Book Award
“The Sun in Slices” by Paula Finn
The Sun in Slices by Paula Finn
Recipient of the 2025 Gerald Cable Book Award
ISBN: 978-1-878851-29-1
Paperback $20.00
Release date: September 15, 2027
Paula Finn's poetry has been nominated for a 2026 Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Poet Lore, Common Ground, Bicoastal Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Spoon River Review, and other journals. She is the author of the chapbook Eating History (Finishing Line Press). On the hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Finn's poetry was featured in a piece of musical theater capturing that historic tragedy and the female immigrant worker organizing that arose in its wake. The dramatic oratorio Triangle: From the Fire played to sold-out audiences in New York City and won a Best New Musical Theater award at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Finn has worked for many years with the U.S. labor movement as an activist, educator, and editor. She holds an MFA from NYU's Creative Writing Program and currently lives in Kingston, New York.
Finalists:
deep is the skin of the world by Mermer Blakeslee
How to Be Lonely by Erik Moyer
Selected Heirlooms by KM Kramer
The Beautiful Winding by Allen Kovler
This Killer Ambrosia by Steve Petkus
Trashmore by Jennifer Blackledge
Vitreous Flesh by Kelly Vande Plasse
What I Didn’t See by Joseph Cuomo
Paula Finn, recipient of the 2025 Gerald Cable Book Award