The Art of Perpetuation: Lyric Essays, Alison Powell, Black Lawrences Press

Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community, Rhondda Robinson Thomas, University of Iowa Press

The Distance is More Than an Ocean: A Travelogue Memoir, Chris Wiewiora, Finshing Line Press

Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture, Judith May Fathallah, University of Iowa Press

Fast Funny Women, Gina Barreca, Woodhall Press

Fat: New and Uncollected Prose, W. S. Di Piero, Carnegie Mellon University Press

Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel, Donald Anderson, University of Nevada Press

Narratives, Nerd-fighters, and New Media, Jennifer Burek Pierce, University of Iowa Press

A Woman, A Plan, An Outline of a Man, Sarah Kasbeer, Zone 3 Press