Congratulations to Nancy K. Pearson!

Nancy K. Pearson's manuscript has been chosen from several hundred submissions as the winner of the 2008 Perugia Press Prize. The prize is a national poetry award for first or second books by women. The poem "To the High School Prom Queen," which is part of the manuscript, was published in issue #42.

Kim Addonizio says, “Nancy Pearson's poems are rife with the urgencies of constructing a self. It is a harrowing, hard-fought project. As one poem asks, ‘ By what small margins do we survive? ’ This is a book fiercely in love with the world, a book that unflinchingly examines what can keep someone from inhabiting that world, whole. Two Minutes of Light is a startling, luminous, and moving first collection.”

Nancy K. Pearson, originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, received her MFA from George Mason University. Recently, she completed two seven-month poetry fellowships at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. An avid runner and cyclist, she now lives on Cape Cod with her partner.

To learn more about Two Minutes of Light and Perugia Press, please visit their website.