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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarships:
Heather Kirn’s nonfiction has been noted in the Atlantic Monthly, short-listed in The Best American Essays series, and published in Florida Review, Colorado Review, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in such places as Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Shenandoah. A graduate of Ohio State University’s MFA program, she teaches writing at the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently at work on a memoir about teaching in a west Baltimore high school, which locals once called “The Terrordome.”
Rebekah Remington was educated at The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, and the University of the District of Columbia. Her poetry is forthcoming in Rattle and has appeared in Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2009 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in poetry. She has worked as a speech-language pathologist for the Baltimore City Public Schools and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Remington currently lives in Baltimore with her husband and two sons.
Elizabeth Wetmore’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Crazyhorse, Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals. She is currently writing two books: a novel set in the oil fields of West Texas and a collection of short stories set in Phoenix, Arizona. Both projects have been nurtured and sustained by the love and faith of her friends and family as well as generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Elizabeth lives in Chicago with the poet Jorge Sánchez, their son Hank, and two grumpy old cats named Beatrice and Maud.
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For more information about The Rona Jaffe Foundation, visit www.ronajaffefoundation.org.