Prof. Winik Receives Towson U. Literature Prize
June 20, 2019
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Marion Winik, associate professor in the University of Baltimore's Klein Family School of Communications Design, as well as a local columnist and radio host, is the recipient of the 2019 Towson Prize for Literature, awarded by Towson University. The prize honors Winik's critically-acclaimed 2018 collection, The Baltimore Book of the Dead.
The book, a sequel to her Glen Rock Book of the Dead, offers vignettes on people (and pets, too) who Winik seeks to memorialize with grace, humor and rich insight. The collection received national praise, including from Kirkus Reviews, which described it as "Insightful pieces with a cumulative impact."
The Towson Literature Prize is awarded each year "for a single book or book-length manuscript of fiction, poetry, drama or imaginative nonfiction by a Maryland writer. The prize is granted on the basis of literary and aesthetic excellence as determined by a panel of distinguished judges" selected by Towson University.
Read Towson's announcement about the prize.
Learn more about Prof. Winik.