If the Body Allows It
Winner of the 2019 Book Prize in Fiction
The Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction for 2019 goes to Megan Cummins for her manuscript "If the Body Allows It," chosen by guest-judges Timothy Schaffert and Xu Xi with Editor-in-Chief Kwame Dawes. Cummins is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in A Public Space, One Teen Story, Guernica, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. She is the managing editor of A Public Space.