Printable view of Judith Turner-Yamamoto

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

CINCINNATI, OH

Ohio US

Email:

judith@turneryamamoto.com

Bio:

Judith Turner-Yamamoto’s debut novel LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE, a Mariel Hemingway Book Club selection, won the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Southern Regional Fiction. The North Carolina Society of Historians recognized Loving the Dead and Gone with the 2023 Historical Novel Award. The book was shortlisted for the 2023 UC-Berkeley Eric Hoffer Book Awards Grand Prize, where it was also an honorable mention in General Fiction and finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award for Debut Fiction. Herpublications include StorySOUTH, Mississippi Review, Deep South, and American Literary Review, and many anthologies. Judith’s awards include two Virginia Arts Commission fellowships, an Ohio Arts Council fellowship, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, the Washington Prize for Fiction, and the Virginia Screenwriting Award. Her articles have appeared in Elle, Travel & Leisure, AAPR/The Ethel, and the Los Angeles Times, and her interviews have aired on NPR affiliate WVXU. A Kentucky Humanities Speakers Bureau scholar, Judith, a frequent presenter at conferences and book festivals, has taught fiction and spoken at writing conferences, including the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, Chautauqua Institution, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, and the Writers’ Center, Bethesda, Maryland. She lives on the Kentucky/Ohio border where her love of travel and place continues to inspire her writing.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, Mary Gordon, Nicole Strauss

Twitter/X:

@jturneryamamoto

Born in:

Asheboro, NC

North Carolina

Raised in:

Asheboro, NC

North Carolina

Website:

https://www.turneryamamoto.com [2]

Prizes won:

Selected Awards and Honors

2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards, South: Best Regional Fiction

2023 North Carolina Society of Historians, Historical Novel Award

2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards: Grand Prize Short List; First Horizon Award for Debut Fiction Finalist; General Fiction Honorable Mention

2023 Mariel Hemingway’s Book Club Pick

2020 Petrichor Prize, Regal House Publishing, Finalist and novel publication fall 2022

2018 Artistic Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council

2018 Under the Gum Tree Nonfiction Prize, second place

2018, Bridport Prize for the Short Story, Short List

2017 The Story Project, Maryland Transit Authority, Purple Line

2016 Writer in Residence, Cincinnati Public Library Foundation, Finalist

2007 Arlington County, VA, winner, “Moving Words” Poetry Competition

2003 artist residency, Fundacíon Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

2003 residency fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2002-2003 Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction, Virginia Commission on the Arts

2002 StoryQuarterly Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference

2000 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize

1999 Virginia Governor’s Screenwriting Award

1997-98 Individual Artist Fellowship in Fiction, Virginia Commission on the Arts

1997 Writer in Residence, The Chautauqua Institution

1989 Washington Prize for Fiction

1988 Fellow, Duke University Writers’ Conference

1988, Jenny McKean Moore Fellow, George Washington University

Awards Finalist

2023 Bedford Short Story Prize, 2023 Lit/South Awards, 2022 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize, 2021Doris Betts Fiction Prize, 2018 Bridport Prize for the Short Story, 2016 Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Prize, 2016 Fish Publishing International Short Story Prize, 2016 Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition; 2015 Eludia Award, Sowilo Press; 2011 Manchester Fiction Prize; 2009 Bridport Prize for the Short Story; 1998 Governor’s Screenwriting Award; 1998 James Fellowship for the Novel in Progress, The Heekin Group Foundation; 1997 Tara Fellowship in Short Fiction, 1996 Sundance Institute Screenwriters Workshop; 1994 H.E. Francis Award, Ruth Hindman Foundation; 1992 Takeshi Kaiko Award; Finalist, Georgetown Poetry and Prose 1988 Literary Competition.

What I'm reading now:

Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

TAMP by Daniel Loving

Writers Retreats:

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Identifies as:

English American

Prefers to work with:

Adults