GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES NEW STATE AUTHOR AND STATE POET AWARDEES

GOVERNOR CUOMO ANNOUNCES NEW STATE AUTHOR AND STATE POET AWARDEES

Colson Whitehead Named State Author and Alicia Ostriker Named State Poet  Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on Wednesday announced Colson Whitehead has been named New York’s 12th State Author and Alicia Ostrikerhas been named New York’s 11th State Poet. Whitehead, novelist, journalist, memoirist, and nonfiction writer will receive the New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction Writers; and […]