THE 2011 BLOOM CHAPBOOK CONTEST

POETRY JUDGE / MARK DOTY

SHORT FICTION / NINA REVOYR

CREATIVE NONFICTION / RIGOBERTO GONZALEZ

July 27, 2011--BLOOM announces the judges for its 2011 Chapbook Contest, which has expanded to three genres: Poetry, Short Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. 2011 Guidelines.

Mark Doty's Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems,  won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.  His eight books of poems include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose:  Still Life with  Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Doty's work has been honored by the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards  and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Doty lives in New York City and on the east end of Long Island. In the fall of 2009, he joined the faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Nina Revoyr is the author of four novels. Her second novel, Southland, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and "Best Book of 2003," a Book Sense 76 pick, an Edgar Award finalist, and the winner of the Ferro Grumley Award and the Lambda Literary Award. Her third book, The Age of Dreaming, was a finalist for the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her most recent novel, Wingshooters, was published in March, 2011. It is one of O: Oprah Magazine's "Books to Watch For," an IndieBound Indie Next Selection, and a Midwest Connections Pick. She has been an Associate Faculty member at Antioch University, and a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Occidental College, and Pitzer College.

Rigoberto González is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. The recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, The Poetry Center Book Award, and The Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America, he writes a Latino book column for the El Paso Times of Texas. He is contributing editor for Poets & Writers Magazine, on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle, and is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers—Newark, State University of New Jersey.