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2008 Juked Fiction and Poetry Prizes
Final Judges
Mark Winegardner (fiction)
Mark Winegardner was born and raised in Bryan, Ohio. His books, which include The Godfather’s Revenge, The Godfather Returns, Crooked River Burning, That’s True of Everybody, and The Veracruz Blues, have been translated into more than twenty languages and sold almost two million copies worldwide. They have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and in best-of-the-year lists by The New York Times Book Review, the New York Public Library, The American Library Association, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Sun-Times. In 2004, Cleveland Magazine named Crooked River Burning the best book ever written about Cleveland. His work has appeared in such magazines as Doubletake, GQ, Men's Journal, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, Playboy, Ploughshares, Story Quarterly, and TriQuarterly. He is the Burroway Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University.
Angela Ball (poetry)
Angela Ball is a prize-winning poet and author of numerous books, including Quartet, The Museum of the Revolution: 58 Exhibits, Kneeling Between Parked Cars, and Possession. Her most recent book, Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds (University of Pittsburg Press, 2007), was winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, awarded by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Partisan Review, New Republic, Field, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Chelsea, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Poetry, and Grand Street. Her work was included in Best American Poetry 2001, and she has represented the U.S. at the Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, and the Colombian International Poetry Festival, Bogotá. She has received grants from the Mississippi Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a mainstay on the faculty at the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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