SEAN PRENTISS | WRITER
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Book Awards

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National Outdoor Book Award, winner: 2015
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Vermont Book Award Finalist: 2016
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Colorado Book Award Finalist: 2016
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Utah Book Award, winner: 2015
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New Mexico & Arizona Book Award, ​winner: 2015
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Other Awards

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The Atlantic Student Writers’ Contest Finalist:
  • Names top five graduate student writers in America in creative nonfiction. Spring 2005.

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Backcountry Magazine:
  • Poet laureate of Backcountry Magazine from 2021 through the present.


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​Pushcart Prize Nominations:
  • Nominated in 2005, 2007, 2009 (twice), 2013, 2015 (twice), 2016, 2017, 2018.








Norwich University's Military Writers' Symposium:
  • Writer-in-residence for the Military Writers' Symposium, 2022 - present.


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Fugue Nonfiction Literary Award Winner:
  • “What We Learned About Love We Learned from the Quarries.” Summer 2011.




​San Juan National Forest, Artist-in-Residence
  • Served a week-long appointment as an artist-in-residence. Durango, CO. June 2011.





​SLAB Literary Journal
  • Two pieces were named as the best of SLAB's first fifteen years of publishing.







​Plainsongs Award Poem Winner:
  • “Majestic Prayers of Bangor.” Spring 2009.


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    • Far Edges of the Fourth Genre
    • Textbook Series >
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      • Poetry
      • Creating Comics
      • Art and Craft of Asian Stories
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