The 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award

Recent Awardees

The Lifetime Achievement Award has been awarded since the early 1990s. Here is a look at the recent writers who have received the Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 2026, Diné poet Jake Skeets was selected to steward the Native Writers Circle of the Americas in communication with Founder Geary Hobson. Over the next year, Skeets will begin to plan the next chapters of NWCA and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Laura Tohe

2025