We are proud to announce that Andrew Merton’s Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs has won the New Hampshire Writers’ Project’s award for Outstanding Book of Poetry. The official announcement from NHWP will come in January.

Andrew Merton has been a political reporter and columnist for the Gloucester (Massachusetts) Times, The Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and a contributing editor with Boston Magazine. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Yankee Magazine and The Boston Phoenix. His book Enemies of Choice was published by Beacon Press in 1980, and his anthology In Your Own Voice: A Writer’s Reader was published by Harper Collins in 1995. His poetry has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, The Comstock Review, Silk Road, Third Wednesday, The American Journal of Nursing and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

The New Hampshire Writers’ Project is a statewide membership-based non-profit organization designed to serve as a resource for writers, publishers, booksellers, literary agents, educators, librarians, and readers in and around New Hampshire.

Evidence that We are Descended from Chairs is currently available from Accents Publishing.

More from Andrew Merton:

• “Preemie” by Andrew Merton
• “The Original Sin: Adam’s Story” by Andrew Merton
• “Why I Left the Poetry Reading Early” by Andrew Merton
• “Cruise Ship Intervention” by Andrew Merton