2007 SSML Annual Writing Prizes

Jill Barnum Midwestern Heritage Prize for Literary Criticism:
Christian Knoeller, Purdue University
“Native on Native”

Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize:
Todd F. Davis, Penn State Altoona
“Tree of Heaven”

Paul Somers Prize for Creative Prose:
Maria Bruno, Michigan State University
“At the Foot of Mt. Etna”

David Diamond Student Writing Prize:
Nicholas Kowalczyk, University of Iowa, Nonfiction Writing Program
“Murder in Rustbelt City”