Art and Photography
Bison: Portrait of an Icon
Audrey Hall and Chase Reynolds Ewald, Montana and California
Published by Gibbs Smith Books
Children’s Book
Dear Peter, Dear Ulla
Barbara Nickel, British Columbia
Published by Thistledown Press
Creative Nonfiction
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
Julian Rubinstein, Colorado
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fiction
And It Will Be a Beautiful Life
Craig Lancaster, Montana
Published by The Story Plant
First Book
Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, New York
Published by Bison Books
Indigenous Writer
20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis
Arnolda Dufour Bowes, Saskatchewan
Published by Gabriel Dumont Institute Press
Medicine & Science
Wild Rescues: A Paramedic’s Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
Kevin Grange, Wyoming
Published by Chicago Review Press
Nonfiction
A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts and Essays from the Montana Historical Society
The Montana Historical Society, Kirby Lambert and Tom Ferris, Montana
Published by the Montana Historical Society Press
Poetry
The Track the Whales Make: New and Selected Poems
Marjorie Saiser, Nebraska
Published by University of Nebraska Press
Short Stories
Site Fidelity
Claire Boyles, Colorado
Published by WW Norton
Woman Writer
The Stone Sister
Caroline Patterson, Montana
Published by Black Lawrence Press
Young Adult
Alone
Megan E. Freeman, Colorado
Published by Simon & Schuster/Aladdin
Big Sky
A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts and Essays from the Montana Historical Society
The Montana Historical Society, Kirby Lambert and Tom Ferris, Montana
Published by the Montana Historical Society Press
