Congratulations to Bobby C. Rogers of Memphis, Tennessee, winner of the 2009 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for his debut collection, Paper Anniversary. Read the press release.
Congratulations to Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, author of Black Swan and ]Open Interval[, which is a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in the poetry division.
Congratulations to UPMC transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl, author of The Puzzle People: Memoirs of a Transplant Surgeon. Starzl has received the National Institute of Medicine's 2009 Gustav O. Lienhard Award for "outstanding national achievement in improving personal health care services in the United States." He performed the world's first liver transplant in 1967. |
