2011 Katharine Bakeless Nason Publication Prize Winners

The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 sixteenth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes.  Jo Sarzotti’s Mother Desert was chosen by Carl Phillips for the Poetry prize.  Ted Sanders’ No Animals We Could Name was chosen by Stacey D’Erasmo for the Fiction prize.  Carmen Bugan’s Burying the Typewriter was chosen by Lynn Freed for the Creative Nonfiction prize.  The three winning authors will have their book length manuscripts published by Graywolf.  In addition, they will receive fellowships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in August, 2012. 

2011 Bakeless Poetry Prize

Jo Sarzotti’s poetry has appeared in Denver Quarterly, North American Review, Perihelion, Margie, la fovea, The Alaska Quarterly, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review.  She is Professor of Literature at The Julliard School where she teaches courses in Norse mythology, literature of depression, and English Romanticism.  In 2011-12, she will be Interim Director of the Liberal Arts Department.

2011 Bakeless Fiction Prize

Ted Sanders’ stories and essays have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Georgia Review, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, and Massachusetts Review, among others.  His story “Obit” was featured in the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2010.  He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.  He has lived in Illinois for most of his life and now resides and teaches in Urbana. 

2011 Bakeless Nonfiction Prize

Carmen Bugan’s first collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, was published in 2004, and her monograph on Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry is forthcoming.  Educated at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Balliol College in the University of Oxford, where she obtained a doctorate in 2004, she has held numerous prestigious fellowships.  She has published poetry and prose in Harvard Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Modern Poetry in Translation and PN Review and her poems have been widely anthologized, most recently in Penguin’s Poems for Life and Christopher Ricks’s Joining Music with Reason.  She now lives in Switzerland with her husband and her son, where she teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Fribourg.