2008 BLR Literary Prize Judges

Fiction: Rick Moody is the author of four novels, two collections of stories, and a memoir. In June 2007, Little, Brown & Co. will publish Right Livelihoods, a collection of three novellas.

Nonfiction: Richard Selzer is a general surgeon who practiced and taught at Yale Medical Center for more than thirty years. Since retirement he has devoted his life to writing. He has published a dozen books, including Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery, Letters to a Young Doctor, Confessions of a Knife, Taking in the World for Repairs, and The Doctor Stories. Three more books are to be published: a volume of diary, a volume of letters, and a novel, written half a century ago, and only lately restored to life.

Poetry: Marie Howe is the author of The Good Thief, selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series, and the editor, with Michael Klein, of In the Company of My Solitude:American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. She is also the author of What the Living Do, and recipient of the Lavan Younger Poet Prize from the Academy of American Poets, the Bunting fellowship from Radcliffe College, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artist Foundation and the Guggenheim. Her third book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time is due out from Norton in January, 2008.