The Judy Gaines Young Book Award is given annually by Transylvania University to honor the author of a book of distinction written in the Appalachian region in the previous two or three years. The award was endowed in 2015 by Dr. Byron Young, a Lexington-area professor and neurologist, in honor of his late wife.
The program is currently coordinated by Transylvania Professor of English Martha Billips and Poet-in-Residence Maurice Manning.
Winners 2015 – Holly Goddard Jones for The Next Time You See Me 2016 – Amy Greene for Long Man 2017 – Crystal Wilkinson for The Birds of Opulence 2018 – Kathleen Driskell for Next Door to the Dead 2019 – Silas House for Southernmost 2020 – Frank X Walker for Last Will, Last Testament 2021 – Robert Gipe for the Canard County trilogy (Trampoline, Weedeater, and Pop) 2022 – Jeff Worley
Past Nominees
2015 Ron Houchin for The Man Who Saws Us in Half George Ella Lyon for Many-Storied House Jeff Daniel Marion for Letters to the Dead Allison Seay for To See the Queen Lee Smith for Guests on Earth
2016 Robert Gipe for Trampoline (first nomination) T. J. Jarrett for Zion Jeremy B. Jones for Bearwallow Denton Loving for Crimes Against Birds George Ella Lyon for What Forest Knows
2017 Lee Smith for Dimestore
2018 Darnell Arnoult for Galaxie Wagon Robert Gipe for Trampoline (second nomination) Mark Powell for Small Treasons Mary Ann Taylor-Hall for Out of Nowhere
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