2007 KATHARINE BAKELESS NASON
PUBLICATION PRIZE WINNERS
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2007 twelfth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Aaron Baker’s Mission Work was chosen by Stanley Plumly for the Poetry prize. Steven Wingate’s Wifeshopping was chosen by Amy Hempel for the Fiction prize. Dustin Beall Smith’s Only Endless Consequence was chosen by Terry Tempest Williams for the Creative Nonfiction prize. 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, 2008.
2007 Bakeless Poetry Prize
Aaron Baker received an MFA from the University of Virginia and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University. He is originally from Graham, Washington, and has lived in Mexico, Germany, and Papua New Guinea (where his parents were missionaries in a remote village of the Chimbu Highlands). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere, and have been featured on Poetry Daily. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, the poet Jennifer Chang, and teaches literature and writing at James Madison University.
2007 Bakeless Fiction Prize Steven Wingate received the 2006 Fiction Prize from both Gulf Coast and The Journal. His work has also appeared in Mississippi Review, River City, Quarter After Eight, Exquisite Corps, and the anthology Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category. Prior to receiving the Bakeless Prize, his collection Wifeshopping was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. He holds an MFA from Florida State University and teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he founded the literary annual Divide.
2007 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize Dustin Beall Smith's essays have appeared in The Sun, The Gettysburg Review, The New York Times Magazine, The Louisville Review, Hotel Amerika, Quarto, River Teeth, Writing on the Edge, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and teaches writing at Gettysburg College.