The Evans Biography Awards encourage the best in research and writing about individuals who shaped the Interior West (defined for the awards as an expanded Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region, extending south into Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, and north into southern Alberta, Canada) through the awarding of two annual cash prizes for excellence in biography, autobiography, and memoir.

The deadline for submission to the Evans Biography Awards is fast approaching. Books with a first publishing date in 2017 are due by February 21, 2018. 

The detailed award criteria and submission information can be found on the Mountain West Center website at www.mountainwest.usu.edu.

If you have a book that fits the criteria we encourage you to apply or if you know of a book, please email the Mountain West Center at mwc@usu.edu so that we may contact the publisher for submission.

Please feel free to contact the Mountain West Center with any questions at mwc@usu.edu or call 435-797-0299.

Evelyn Funda, Director of the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, Utah State University