“Understanding the Short Fiction of Carson McCullers,” co-edited by Alison Graham-Bertolini, associate professor with a joint appointment in English and Women and Gender Studies, and Casey Kayser of the University of Arkansas has been named a 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards finalist in the women’s studies category.
Foreword Magazine Inc. hosts an annual awards program, which is now in its 23rd year. Finalists represent the best books published in 2020. More than 2,000 individual titles across 55 genres were submitted for consideration, and the finalists were determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners will be decided by an expert team of booksellers and librarians—representing Foreword’s trade readership—from across the country.
“The pandemic did not slow down the quality of great books coming from the independent publishing community in 2020. The finalist selection process this year was one of the hardest our team encountered due to the vast number of excellent submissions,” said Victoria Sutherland, publisher.
Graham-Bertolini earned her Master of Liberal Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and her doctorate in English literature at Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on contemporary American literature, with specializations in women's literature, ethnic literature and literature of the southern United States.
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