1997 BAKELESS PUBLICATION PRIZE WINNERS
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 1997 second annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Joyce Hinnefeld's What Does a Woman Want? was chosen by Joanna Scott for the fiction award. Michael Loncar's 66 galaxie was chosen by Garrett Hongo for the poetry prize. Joyce Hinnefeld's and Michael Loncar's books will be published in the Fall of 1998 by the Middlebury College\University Press of New England. The winning authors will also receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 1998.
Joyce Hinnefeld was born and raised in Brownstown, Indiana and educated at Hanover College and Northwestern University, from which she received a B.A. and M.A. respectively. In 1995 she graduated from SUNY-Albany with a Ph.D. in English. Her stories and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in "The Denver Quarterly," "The Greensboro Review," and "13th Moon," and in the anthologies Prairie Hearts: Women's Writings on the Midwest (Outrider Press, 1996) and Many Lights in Many Windows: Twenty Years of Great Fiction and Poetry from the Writers Community (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming). She has worked as an editor and has taught at the College of New Rochelle, Siena College, SUNY-Albany, and Dutchess Community College. Presently Joyce Hinnefeld is an assistant professor of English at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Joanna Scott writes, "The stories in What Does a Woman Want? take as their starting point the precarious connections that bind women to women and women to men, and they go beyond these connections to explore the refuge of private consciousness. This is a beautiful and wise collection, with no wasted words."
Michael Loncar was born in Youngstown, Ohio and received his B.A. in English from Miami University of Ohio and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. His poems have been published in "Poetry East," "Caliban," "Spinning Jenny," and "Soundings East," and in A Visit to the Gallery: Poets at the Michigan Museum of Art (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming). He teaches film and literature at the University of Michigan.
Garrett Hongo calls 66 galaxie "a car-culture quest-romance told in playful visual and prosodic rondos, jump-cut images in collision with poignant sentiments. In 66 galaxie, Quentin Tarantino meets e.e. cummings in the first American epic haiku noir."
No award was made in creative nonfiction for 1997.