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MEDIA CONTACT: Art and Music Library (585) 275-4476 or Helene Snihur (585) 275-7800
June 10, 2003
Judith Kitchen, writer in residence in the English department at SUNY College
at Brockport, has been named the recipient of the Lillian Fairchild Award.
The annual award, which is administered by the Department of English at the
University of Rochester, is presented to a Rochester area resident who has produced
the best visual, literary, or musical work of art. Kitchen is being honored
for her book The House on Eccles Road.
Kitchen's novel follows a middle-aged woman, still grieving over the loss of
her only child eight years earlier, on her wedding anniversary. Structured like
James Joyce's Ulysses to take place in a single day, the work also received
the S. Mariella Gable Prize presented by Graywolf Press. The Library Journal
gave the book a starred review, Publishers Weekly described Kitchen's
writing as "powerfully direct," and the Los Angeles Times called
Kitchen a "fine, imaginative writer."
Kitchen is the author of Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford;
Only the Dance: Essays on Time and Memory; and a book of poems, Perennials,
for which she won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry. She is also the recipient of
a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and
New York Foundation for the Arts, and she was a finalist for the National Magazine
Award.
The Fairchild Award was established by Herman L. Fairchild of the University's
Department of Geology in memory of his daughter, an accomplished designer who
died of tuberculosis at age 32. The first award was given in 1924. Previous
winners have included Garth Fagan, director of Garth Fagan Dance, architect
Frank S. Grosso, and novelist Andrea Barrett.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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