I was just named the winner of the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award. 🤯
Natasha Trethewey, who made the publication of “Fractures” possible by selecting it for the Felix Pollak Prize, was announced as the winner in the memoir category for “Memorial Drive” just before they announced the Poetry Full-Length category. You can’t make this up.
In the judge’s citation, Malcolm Tariq wrote:
In Fractures, Carlos Andrés Gómez delivers a poignant, thoughtful interrogation of what it means to live and love when society gives so many reasons not to. These poems chart a difficulty and invite deep reflection about fatherhood and interpersonal relationships and the strains that racism and notions of manhood place on them. Long after they’ve been read, these poems continue to hold the reader. They teach us that there is forgiveness. There are different ways of caring, and there are different ways of moving forward with the many things we carry.
Thank you to the Georgia Writers Association for honoring me and my work and everyone who’s supported this book. Wow.
Read more here: https://www.authoroftheyear.or
Watch the announcement here: https://youtu.be/5hmCnfvfHKU?t=2866
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