2020 Finalists

2020 High Plains Book Awards Finalists

Art & Photography

The Arapaho Way: Continuity and Change on the Wind River Reservation by Sara Wiles, published by University of Oklahoma Press (Read a Review)
Truth and Beauty in the Canadian Rockies by Lisa Christensen, published by Fifth House Press (Read a Review)
Victor Cicansky: The Gardener’s Universe / L’univers d’un jardinier by Timothy Long & Julia Krueger, Editors, published by MacKenzie Art Gallery (Read a Review)

Children’s Book

Forever Neverland by Susan Adrian, published by Random House Children’s Books (Read a Review)
Howl: A New Look at the Big Bad Wolf by Ted Rechlin, published by RexTooth Studios (Read a Review)
Major: A Soldier Dog by Trevor Jones, illustrated by Ming Hai, published by Six Foot Press (Read a Review)

Creative Nonfiction

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country by Pam Houston, published by W.W. Norton & Company (Read a Review)
Encounters in Yellowstone: The Nez Perce Summer of 1877 by M. Mark Miller, published by Two Dot Press (Read a Review)
Essential Yellowstone: A Landscape of Memory and Wonder by Michael J. Yochim, published by Riverbend Publishing (Read a Review)

Fiction

Fall Back Down When I Die by Joe Wilkins, published by Little, Brown and Company (Read a Review)
The Healer’s Daughter by Charlotte Hinger, published by Gale/Cengage (Five Star) (Read a Review)
The Line Between by Tosca Lee, published by Howard Books/Simon & Schuster (Read a Review)

First Book

The Cheyenne Story: An Interpretation of Courage by Gerry Robinson, self-published (Read a Review)
Earth to Charlie by Justin Olson, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Read a Review)
Reckless Steps Toward Sanity by Judith Sara Gelt, published by University of New Mexico Press (Read a Review)

Indigenous Writer

From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle, published by Simon & Schuster Canada (Read a Review)
Perception: A Photo Series by KC Adams, published by HighWater Press/ Portage & Main Press (Read a Review)
The Red Chesterfield by Wayne Arthurson, published by University of Calgary Press (Read a Review)

Medicine & Science

Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker by Charles H. Warner, published by University Press of Kansas (Read a Review)
The Science of Why, Vol 4 by Jay Ingram, published by Simon & Schuster Canada (Read a Review)
Six Hundred Generations: An Archaeological History of Montana, by Carl M. Davis, published by Riverbend Publishing (Read a Review)

Nonfiction

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen, published by Yale University Press (Read a Review)
One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture by Stephanie Anderson, published by University of Nebraska Press (Read a Review)
Voices of Yellowstone’s Capstone edited by Traute N. Parrie & Jesse A. Logan, published by Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Foundation (Read a Review)

Poetry

Mercy by Shirley Camia published by Turnstone Press (Read a Review)
St. Boniface Elegies by Catherine Hunter, published by Signature Editions (Read a Review)
Wilderness//Kingdom by Jory Mickelson, published by Floating Bridge Press (Read a Review)

Short Stories

Not a Thing to Comfort You by Emily Wortman-Wunder, published by University of Iowa Press (Read a Review)
This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. by Jennifer Wortman, published by Split/Lip Press (Read a Review)
Winning Chance by Katherine Koller, published by Great Plains Publications (Read a Review)

Woman Writer

Cold Metal Stairs by Su Croll, published by Turnstone Press (Read a Review)
Nighthawk Rising: A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown’s Park by Diana Allen Kouris, published by High Plains Press (Read a Review)
River People by Margaret Lukas, published by BQB Publishing (Read a Review)

Young Adult Book

Cold White Sun by Sue Farrell Holler, published by Groundwood Books (Read a Review)
Qaqavii by Miriam Korner, published by Red Deer Press (Read a Review)
Spin by Colleen Nelson, published by Dundurn Press (Read a Review)