Washington Writers Publishing House is a non-profit literary organization established in 1973 to foster the work of writers in the Washington-Baltimore area, and it sponsors annual prizes in poetry and fiction. This year’s winner of the 2017 Jean Feldman Poetry Prize is Nicole Tong, here presenting her formal debut collection. An associate professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, Tong is also the author of the chapbook My Mine. Her work has appeared in CALYX, Cortland Review, and Yalobusha Review, and she served as an inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Pope-Leighey House, a Frank Lloyd Wright property. Jacob R. Weber, winner of the 2017 fiction prize, has published stories in The Potomac Review, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, and Bartleby Snopes. He is a former Marine and an experienced translator from Korean and Tigrinya, a background that informs his debut short-story collection, one piece of which charts the adventures of a translator of a pretend language for a government agency.