Fiction — Leopoldine Core (Whiting Award 2015)Leopoldine Core

Fiction — Leopoldine Core (Whiting Award 2015)

Whiting Award · 2015 · Winner

Whiting FoundationApril 1, 2015Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Whiting Award	2015	Winner	“Fiction — Leopoldine Core”

About This Book

Leopoldine Core is recognized for her story collection When Watched, which captures queer life, art, and desire in New York City in luminous, compressed prose. This record is a writer-level placeholder for her Whiting Award.

About the Author

Leopoldine CoreAmerican

Leopoldine Core was born and raised in New York City's East Village. She graduated from Hunter College and has published the poetry collection Veronica Bench (2015) and the short story collection When Watched (2016), which won a Whiting Award in Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.