Winners of the WLA 2013 Awards: Presented at the 48th Annual WLA Conference in Berkeley, California

Distinguished Achievement Awards
Robert Hass & Louis Owens (posthumously)

Delbert and Edith Wylder Award
for exceptional service to the Western Literature Association
Melody Graulich

Thomas J. Lyon Book Award
for best book in western American literary & cultural studies
Annette Kolodny
for In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

Don D. Walker Prize
for best essay published in western American studies
Kay Yandell
for “The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows”

J. Golden Taylor Award
for best conference paper submitted by a graduate student
Heather Dundas

for “Michel Foucault in Death Valley”