The Peace Corps Writers Rowland Scherman Award for Best Book
of Poetry
This award was first presented in 2009.
Awards are presented to books published during the previous year.
To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com, click on the book cover or the bold book title, and Peace Corps Worldwide — an Amazon Associate — will receive a small remittance that will help support these annual writers awards.
The winners are —
2020
Altamont 1969
Bill Owens (Jamaica 1964–66)
2019
Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War
Kevin Bubriski (Nepal 1975–79)
2018
A Silhouette of Liberia Photographs: Photographs: 1974–1977
Michael H. Lee (Liberia 1974–76)
2014
Timeless: Photography of Rowland Scherman
Photos by Rowland Scherman (Peace Corps/Washington staff 1961–64)
2014
Somehow: Living on Uganda Time
Douglas Cruickshank (Uganda 2009–12)
2012
Making Peace with the World: Photographs of Peace Corps Volunteers
Richard Sitler (Jamaica 2000–02)
2010
Subway Art
Martha Cooper (Thailand 1963–65) and Henry Chalfant
2009
Drokpa: Nomads of the Tibetan Plateau and Himalaya
Daniel J. Miller (Nepal 1974–78)