OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington Center for the Book released the names of seven winners for the 2025 Washington State Book Awards for “outstanding books published by Washington authors in 2024.”

The winners in each of the seven categories are:

Creative Nonfiction/Memoir Winner: Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls of Seattle/Port Townsend (MCD)

Fiction Winner: Rough Trade  by Katrina Carrasco of Seattle (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

General Nonfiction/Biography Winner: Be A Revolution  by Ijeoma Oluo of Seattle (HarperOne)

Poetry Winner: Something About Living  by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha of Redmond (The University of Akron Press)

Picture Books Winner: Daughter of the Light-Footed People  by Belen Medina of Vancouver and Natalia Rojas Castro (Atheneum – Simon &

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