Literature Awards Committee

Committee Charge

To solicit nominations, review and vote for an award each for Adult Fiction, Illustration in Children’s Literature, and Youth Literature. Please visit the Literature Awards page for more information.

Chair

Buenaventura Basco, University of Central Florida Libraries
Buenaventura.Basco@ucf.edu

Dora Ho, Los Angeles Public Library
dorah2005@gmail.com

Category Chairs

Adult Literature (Fiction)
2011-2013 – Holly Cole Okuhara, Weber County Library
2012-2014 – Samanthi Hewakapuge, National Network of Libraries of Medicine

Adult Literature (Non-Fiction)
2011-2013 – Janet Clarke, Stony Brook University Libraries
2012-2014 – Janet Tom, San Francisco Public Library

Children’s Literature
2011-2013 – Sarah Park, St. Catherine University
2012-2014 – Katrina Nye, Allan Hancock College

YA Literature
2011-2013 – Jerry Dear, San Francisco Public Library
2012-2014 – Karla Lucht, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Picture Books (Illustration in Children’s Literature)
2011-2013 – Susan Minobe, UCLA Young Research Library
2012-2014 – Denise Geier

Category Members

2011-2013 Adult Literature (Fiction)
Karen Fernandez
Tina Chan
Miriam Tuliao

2012-2014 Adult Literature (Fiction)
Tarida Anantachai
Tiffany Chow
Suzanne Im
Sofia Leung

2011-2013 Adult Literature (Non-Fiction):
Allan Cho
Samanthi Hewakapuge
Janet Tom

2012-2014 Adult Literature (Non-Fiction)
Anjali Goyal
Michelle Miller
Bianca Rios
Tinamarie Vella

2011-2013 Children’s Literature
Denise Geier
Michael Habata
Sandy Wee

2012-2014 Children’s Literature
Jade Alburo
Sheela Chari
Beatriz Pascual
Alicia Yao

2011-2013 YA Literature
Haruko Yamauchi
Karla Lucht
Dorcas Wong

2012-2014 YA Literature
Candice Mack
Tamiye Meehan
Ileana Pulu
Kate Vo Thi-Beard

2011-2013 Picture Books (Illustration in Children’s Literature)
M. A. Ambray Gonzales
Katrina Nye
Cindy Wee

2012-2014 Picture Books (Illustration in Children’s Literature)
Ann Crewdson
Helen Look
Ariana Sani
Gayatri Singh