Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize

Winner of the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Jennifer Renee Blevins’s debut memoir, Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, sheds light on her experiences living with the emotional and psychological struggles of taking up space in a...

In Skull Cathedral, Melissa Wiley pulls stories from the vestigial remnants of the creatures we were or could have become.The appendix, pinky toes, tonsils, male nipples, wisdom teeth, and coccyx are starting points through which Wiley explores...

In her memoir, winner of the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Jill Kanel details her early days as a newlywed, accompanying her Dutch husband to Zambia and living in a village so remote that it takes an eight-hour canoe ride to reach. This book...

The Running Body by Emily Pifer, selected by Steve Almond as the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, is a memoir of addiction, body image, and healing, through the lens of a long-distance runner.Pifer’s debut memoir wrestles and reckons...