The Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction

Special Guest Judge, Erin Aubry Kaplan

With humor, heart and urgency, “Fragile Rat” describes the modern travails of addiction—and love—in language that’s honest, propulsive, and never cliched.

Erin Aubry Kaplan, is author of I Heart Obama (2016), and the collection of essays and reportage,Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispaches From a Black Journalista. She has written about African-American political, economic, and cultural issues since 1992, and is a regular contributor to Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Salon.com, Ms., and Essence.