T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University) poet is chosen each year to judge the collections, and to select the winner and several finalists. The winners, collection titles, and judges of the annual Prize are listed below. In addition to the winner, several finalists are announced for each year's competition. The complete list of winners and finalists is posted at the Truman State University Press website. As examples, Deborah Warren and A. M. Juster were finalists, and both Patty Seyburn and Daniel Bourne have been finalists twice. T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University) The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded annually by Truman State
S. T. Joshi S. T. Joshi Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft, "I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft" (Hippocampus Press, 2 vols., 2010 [originally published in one volume as "", 1996]), Joshi has prepared (with David E. Schultz) several annotated editions of works by Ambrose Bierce.