Golden Poppy Awards 2020 - Winners
AND THE WINNERS ARE...

MARTIN CRUZ SMITH AWARD - EMERGING DIVERSE VOICES
How Much of These Hills is Gold
by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead)
FICTION
The Vanishing Half
by Britt Bennett (Riverhead Press)

NON-FICTION
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
by Alia Volz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

T. JEFFERSON PARKER AWARD - MYSTERY, SUSPENSE & THRILLER
Heaven, My Home
by Attica Locke (Mullholland)

GLENN GOLDMAN AWARD - NON NARRATIVE
Lost Venice
by Sarah Hadley (Damiani)

ROMANCE
The Right Swipe
by Alisha Rai (Avon)

POETRY
Wicked Enchantment
by Wanda Coleman (City Lights Books)

FOOD/COOKING
Oaxaca
by Bricia Lopez & Javier Cabral (Abrams)

MIRRORS AND WINDOWS - PICTURE BOOKS:
Hike
by Pete Oswald (Candlewick)
![]() |
![]() |
MIRRORS AND WINDOWS - YOUNG ADULT/MIDDLE GRADE (Tie)
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes (Little, Brown)
The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall (Candlewick)
PICTURE BOOKS
You Matter
by Christian Robinson (Antheneum BYFR)
![]() |
![]() |
MIDDLE GRADE (Tie)
Mañanaland by Pam Muñoz (Scholastic)
Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros (Quill Tree Books)
YOUNG ADULT
Raybearer
by Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)






