2009 KATHARINE BAKELESS NASON
PUBLICATION PRIZE WINNERS
The Bread Loaf Writers'Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 fourteenth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Nick Lantz's We Don't Know We Don't Know was chosen by Linda Gregerson for the Poetry prize. Belle Bogg's Mattaponi Queen was chosen by Percival Everett for the Fiction prize and Kim Dana Kupperman's I Just Lately Started Buying Wings: Missives from the Interior was chosen by Sue Halpern for the Creative Nonfiction prize. The three winning authors will have their book length manuscripts published by Graywolf Press. In addition, they will receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2010.
2009 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Nick Lantz was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007-2008, where he also received his MFA in 2005. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Southern Review, Locuspoint, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. His second book was selected by Robert Pinsky for the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2010. He is currently a freelance copyeditor living in Madison.
2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize
Belle Boggs's work has appeared in Glimmer Train, the Oxford American and the Best New American Voices series. She earned her MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine, where she was awarded the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship from the International Institute of Modern Letters (now the Black Mountain Institute). She grew up in King William County, Virginia, and has taught writing in public schools in Brooklyn, NY; Durham, NC and Washington, DC. She currently splits time between Washington, DC and Pittsboro, NC.
2009 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize
Kim Dana Kupperman has had work published in AGNI online, Best American Essays 2006, Brevity, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, and elsewhere. She has received notable mentions in Best American Essays 2007, Best American Essays 2008, and the Pushcart Prize XXXI anthologies. Other honors include a 2009 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship, a 2008 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, the 2003 Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize from Quarter after Eight, and first place in the 1996 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest. She is the founder of Welcome Table Press, dedicated to publishing and celebrating the essay, in all its forms. She works as a managing editor of The Gettysburg Review.