The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2001 sixth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Bill Gruber's collection of essays On All Sides Nowhere was chosen by William Finnegan for the creative nonfiction award. Malinda Markham's Ninety-five Nights of Listening and Miranda Field's Swallow were chosen by Carol Muske to be co-winners for the poetry prize. No award was made in fiction for 2001. The three winning authors will have their book length manuscripts published by Houghton Mifflin, in its distinguished Mariner Original Paperback line. In addition, they will receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2002.
2001 Bakeless Creative Nonfiction Prize
Bill Gruber received a Ph.D. from Washington State University, and an M.A. from the University of Idaho, and a B.A. from Yale University. He's taught at Freiherr von Stein Gymnasium in Hamm, Germany, and at Illinois State University; since 1980 he's been teaching drama and theatre history at Emory University, where he's Professor of English and chairs the department. Before he became a college teacher he was a journalist, and he's also co-authored with his wife a number of stories for children. He is currently completing a book on visual theory and "offstage" action in drama as well as translations of the Austrian playwright, Thomas Bernhard.
2001 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Malinda Markham received her Ph.D. in Literary Studies & Creative Writing in 1999 from the University of Denver, an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa in 1994, and a B.A. degree in English Literature from Santa Clara University, 1990. She has published poems in, among others, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Epoch, Paris Review, Phoebe, and Ohio Review. She is presently full-time instructor of Cross-Cultural Communication at Daito Bunka University in Japan.
Miranda Field received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Vermont College in 1997, and her B.A. in 1989 from the New School for Social Research in New York City. She has published previously in, among others, the Antioch Review, The Boston Review, The Nation, and Colorado Review. She was born and raised in London, moving to the U.S. for college. She currently lives in NYC with her husband and two sons.