Congratulations to Past Fellows Jayne Anne Phillips and Brandon Som on their 2024 Pulitzer Prizes

Provincetown, MA 

The Fine Arts Work Center sends our warmest congratulations to past Fellows Jayne Anne Phillips and Brandon Som on being awarded Pulitzer Prizes! We are so happy to see their extraordinary work honored in this way. 

Jayne Anne Phillips (Fellow 1979 – 1980) received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for Night Watch (Knopf), a beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal.

Brandon Som (Fellow 2011 – 2012) received the 2024 Putlizer in Poetry for Tripas: Poems (Georgia Review Books), a collection that deeply engages with the complexities of the poet’s dual Mexican and Chinese heritage, highlighting the dignity of his family’s working lives, creating community rather than conflict.

Read the full list of prize winners and finalists here.