2009 BLR Literary Prize Judges

Fiction: Rosellen Brown is the author of ten books, five of them novels (most recently Half a Heart and Before and After), a collection of stories, Street Games, and three books of poetry. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Nonfiction: Natalie Angier is a Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and science writer for the New York Times. She has written on an array of science topics from dung beetles to telomeres to interstellar space travel. Her books include The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science (2007), Woman: an Intimate Geography (2000), The Beauty of the Beastly (1995), Natural Obsessions (1988). This year she begins a five-year term as the Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, a post described by the Cornell faculty for "distinguished contributors to cultural achievement." www.natalieangier.com

Poetry: Naomi Shihab Nye is the author/editor of more than 26 books, the most recent being I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You Okay? Tales of Driving & Being Driven and You & Yours. She lives in San Antonio.

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