Drue Heinz Prize

Drue Heinz Literature Prize judge Hilary Masters and 2007 winner Kirk Nesset came together to give an evening reading Oct. 17 in the Frick Fine Arts Auditorium. Nesset, a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, later received MA and PhD degrees in English from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is currently a professor of English and creative writing at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. His most recent books include the Drue Heinz-winning Paradise Road (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) and Mr. Agreeable (Mammoth Press, 2006).

Masters, a professor of English and creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University, is perhaps best known for his memoir Last Stands: Notes from Memory (David Godine, 1982). A U.S. Navy veteran and a 1952 graduate of Brown University, Masters first published his work in The Quarterly Review of Literature in 1963.