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- 2027 Winner announced July 22 or 23 in the Event Guide
- 2025 Brandon Hobson (Cherokee)
- 2023 Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet)
- 2021 Tommy Orange (Cheyenne & Arapaho)
- 2019 Laura Tohe (Navajo)
- 2017 Tim Tingle (Choctaw)
- 2015 Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
- 2013 Sterlin Harjo (Seminole)
- 2011 LeAnne Howe (Choctaw)
- 2009 No Award Given
- 2007 Carter Revard (Osage)
- 2005 Leslie Marmon-Silko (Laguna Pueblo)
- 2003 Vine DeLoria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux)
- 2001 Joy Harjo (Muscogee)