The 2009 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award

Julia Glass for I See You Everywhere

from Pantheon Books

Judge: Laura Boss

"In I See You Everywhere, Julia Glass explores with both fierceness and tenderness the complex relationship of two sisters through the “alternating” point of view of each woman. In language that is always clear and luminous, Glass is a trapeze artist who also leaves us breathless and thrilled."

Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, which won the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, including the Tobias Wolff Award and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for the Best Novella. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.

Gardner Award Finalists for 2009:

(in alphabetical order)

The Man Back There by David Crouse (Sarabande)

 The Condition by Jennifer Haigh (Harper Collins)

 At the Copa by Marissa Labozzetta (Guernica Editions)

 Our People by Ian MacMillan (BkMk Press, University of Missouri-Kansas City)

 Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire by David Mura ( Coffee House Press)

 Netherland by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)