1996 Bakeless Publication Prize Winners
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased
to announce the winners of the 1996 First annual Bakeless Literary
Publication Prizes. Katherin Hester's Eggs for Yong America and
Other Stories was chosen by Francine Prose for the fiction award.
Mary Jo Bang's Apology for Want was chosen by Edward Hirsch for
the poetry award. The two winners will be published in the Fall of
1997 by Middlebury College/ University Press of New England.
1996 Fiction Award
Katherine Hester was born in Dallas, TX and grew up in northeast
Georgia. She attended school at Sarah Lawrence and the University
of Georgia where she received a degree in Journalism in 1988. She
was a Michener Fellow at the Unviersity of Texas where she graduated
with an M.A. in English. She has worked as a college administrator
and as an editorial assistant for American Short Fiction. Katherine
Hester's stories have appeared in The Indiana Review, The
Cimarron Review, The Allegheny Review, and The O. Henry Awards:
Prize Stories 1994. Ms. Hester lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
1996 Poetry Award
Mary Jo Bang grew up in St. Louis, MO. and was educated at Northwestern
Unviersity. She recently completed course work for an M.F.A. degree
at Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in literary journals
including The Nation, Partisan Review, and Salmagundi. She is a
winner of a Discovery/The Nation award and a scholarship to the
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Ms. Bang lives in Manhattan and
is the co-editor for poetry at The Boston Review.