Dilruba Ahmed's Dhaka Dust Wins Bakeless Literary Prize

11 May 2010
Dilruba Ahmed's Dhaka Dust Wins Bakeless Literary Prize
The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 fifteenth annual Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes. Dilruba Ahmed's Dhaka Dust was chosen by Arthur Sze for the Poetry prize. Shann Ray's American Masculine: Montana Stories was chosen by Robert Boswell for the Fiction prize. Mary Jane Nealon's Beautiful Unbroken was chosen by Jane Brox 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, 2011.

2010 Bakeless Poetry Prize

Dilruba Ahmed's poetry has appeared in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, Pebble Lake Review, and Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. An award-winning writer with roots in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Bangladesh, Ahmed holds BPhil and MAT degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Formerly a project manager with The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Stanford, CA, Ahmed now works with the Writing Center at Villanova University.

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