Virginia Quarterly Review Announces Staige D. Blackford Prize Winner

Congratulations to Pauline Chen of Los Angeles, who won the Staige D. Blackford Prize for creative nonfiction that appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review in 2005. Chen won for "Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death," which appeared in the Fall 2005 issue. The annual awards are given for the best poems, short stories, and creative nonfiction essays published in VQR during the previous year