Congratulations to:

Pitt Press poets Bob Hicok and Reginald Shepherd, who've been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2008. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment. Hicok's latest collection is This Clumsy Living; Shepherd's is Fata Morgana.

Afaa Michael Weaver, whose newest collection The Plum Flower Dance has received the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize.

Sharon Crowley, author of Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism, winner of the 2008 CCCC Outstanding Book Award (Conference on College Composition and Communication). This is the fourth prize Crowley has won for this book.

The University of Pittsburgh Press celebrates Pittsburgh’s 250th birthday with books that invite readers to discover the history, culture, arts, and people of western Pennsylvania. >> Read more