Pete Hsu and Miranda Mazariegos win Granum Prizes

Pete Hsu (Photo by Randy Shropshire )

Miranda Mazariegos

November 13, 2025 – The Granum Foundation is thrilled to announce the results of this year’s competition. Pete Hsu has been named the winner of the 2025 Granum Foundation Prize for his Chinese American Revisionist-Western novel-in-progress, Sunder. Miranda Mazariegos has been selected as the 2025 Granum Foundation Translation Prize winner for her translation of Alguien bailará con nuestras momias, a collection of three short novellas by Guatemalan author Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez. The finalists for the Granum Foundation Prize are Audrey Gradzewicz, Davis McCombs, Na Mee, and Edwardson Ukata.

Hsu is a first generation Taiwanese American writer. He is the author of the story collection If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home (Red Hen Press) and the experimental chapbook There Is A Man (Tolsun Books). He teaches creative writing at the UCLA Extension Writers Program and hosts events at the historic Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, California.

Mazariegos is a writer, editor, and literary translator originally from Guatemala City. She began her career in radio, working in various roles for NPR shows such as Radio Ambulante, Book of the Day, Throughline, and Weekend All Things Considered. Her work, which covers Latin America's art, culture, and politics, has been published by Americas Quarterly, NPR, VICE News, and KPCC, among others. She translates both from and into Spanish, and her translations have been published or supported by World Literature Today, Asymptote Magazine, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, and the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT). She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she now teaches undergraduate nonfiction. She is an editor at Americas Quarterly and lives in New York City.

Gradzewicz holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Purdue University and a PhD in English from The Pennsylvania State University. Originally from Buffalo, New York, her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Cimarron Review, Smartish Pace, and The Penn Review, among others. She was the 2024-2025 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing and currently serves as a poetry editor for The Baltimore Review. Her life revolves around the whims of her cat, George.

McCombs is the author of three books of poetry: Ultima Thule (Yale University Press), Dismal Rock (Tupelo Press), and lore (University of Utah Press). He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Oxford American, among many other publications. 

Na Mee wants her work to make you feel at home with yourself, with others, and with the world. She is a 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices fellow, a Kundiman fellow, and a Narrative Prize finalist. She is grateful to other fellowships and awards from The Aspen Institute, VONA, Hedgebrook, and Storyknife for their support. Na Mee is a Nancy Craig Blackburn Fellow and MFA student at Randolph College. You can find read work in The Sun, AGNI, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, and more. She lives and loves with her family on Lingít Aaní (aka Juneau, Alaska). Find her @tsu_namee or at www.tsunamee.com.

Ukata is a queer nonbinary writer from Ahoada, Nigeria. A graduate student at Washington University in St Louis, they are winner of the 2024 C.D. Wright Poetry Prize by The Arkansas International, named finalist for the 2023 Bergen International Writing Competition, and the 2022 Anzaldua Poetry Prize by Newfound. They have works in Poetry, Lolwe, Channel, FOLIO, Vastarien, Olney, Consequence, among others.

Hsu will receive $5,000, finalists will receive $750 each, and Mazariegos will receive $1,500.

Applications for the next round of funding are scheduled to open in May 2026.