The following have been selected as finalists for the 22nd annual (2011) Oklahoma Book Awards competition. Winners will be announced April 9 at the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame/Jim Thorpe Museum in Oklahoma City. Book must have an Oklahoma-based theme or authors must have lived or live in Oklahoma:
FICTION
Cheyenne Madonna by Eddie Chuculate (David R. Godine, Publisher/Black Sparrow Books)
Stations West by Allison Amend (Louisiana State University Press)
With No Steps to Follow by David Allen Barton (Tate Publishing and Enterprises)
God’s Acres by David Gerard (PenUltimate Press)
The Insane Train by Sheldon Russell (Minotaur Books)
Chasing Lilacs by Carla Stewart (Faith Words)
POETRY
Umberto Eco Lost His Gun by Carol Hamilton (Pudding House Publications)
Spare Parts by Ken Hada (Mongrel Empire Press)
Elegy for Trains by Benjamin Myers (Village Books Press)
Seeing Rightly with the Heart by Howard Stein (Finishing Line Press)
Bird Days by Sheila Tiarks (Village Books Press)
Oklahoma Baroque by Renata Treitel (Out On A Limb Publishing)
Oklahoma Cantos by Ron Wallace (TJMF Publishing)
CHILDREN/YOUNG ADULT
Portrait of a Generation: The Children of Oklahoma, Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth by M.J. Alexander (Southwestern Publishing)
“Cholhkanat Lowak Ishminti” Spider Brings Fire by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw Nation Press)
Salvaged by Stefne Miller (Tate Publishing and Enterprises)
Mostly Monsterly by Tammi Sauer (Simon and Schuster)
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light by Tim Tingle (Cinco Puntos Press)
DESIGN/ILLUSTRATION
Building One Fire, designed by Carol Haralson (Cherokee Nation)
Proud to be Chickasaw, designed by Skip McKinstry; illustrated by Mike Larsen (Chickasaw Nation Press)
Oklahoma National Stockyards, designed by Doug Miller (Mullerhaus Publishing Arts, Inc.)
Portrait of a Generation: The Children of Oklahoma, Sons and Daughters of the Red Earth, designed by Scott O’Daniel (Southwestern Publishing)
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo, designed by Tony Roberts and Julie Rushing; collection photography by Ed Muno (University of Oklahoma Press)
NONFICTION
Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe by Kate Buford (Alfred A. Knopf)
Chickasaw Removal by Fuller L. Bumpers, Daniel F. Littlefield Jr., and Amanda L. Paige (Chickasaw Nation Press)
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, edited by Bob L. Blackburn and Dianne Everett (Oklahoma Historical Society)
Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals by Gordon Grice (Random House)
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne (Scribner)
Race and the University: A Memoir by George Henderson (University of Oklahoma Press)
Arena Legacy: The Heritage of American Rodeo by Richard C. Rattenbury (University of Oklahoma Press)
Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry: Braiding in the California Tradition by Don Reeves and Chuck Stormes (University of Oklahoma Press)
Oilfield Trash: Life and Labor in the Oil Patch by Bobby D. Weaver (Texas A&M University Press)
