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Winners of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference First Annual Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships Kaitline Solimine and Hope Snyder Maxwell are the winners of the first annual Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships. The Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships are awarded to Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference general contributors in support of their return to Bread Loaf in a consecutive year. The scholarships cover the cost of tuition. The scholarship, which will be awarded annually to a fiction writer and a poet, cover the cost of tuition. The Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships have been made possible through a generous bequest from the Estate of Donald Everett Axinn, a distinguished fiction writer and poet, Middlebury College Alumnus, and one of the College’s most significant supporters of creative writing, literature, and the arts. Winners’ Biographies: Kaitlin Solimine holds a BA from Harvard University and an MA from the University of Southern California, both in East Asian Studies with an emphasis on Chinese language, culture, and history. She studied international relations at Beijing University as a Harvard-Yenching Scholar, wrote and edited the travel series, Let’s Go: China (St. Martin’s Press), and received a Fulbright creative grant to research her first novel, The Soap Tree. She is currently an MFA student at UC-San Diego, where she teaches undergraduate writing, continues work on her novel, and explores more experimental forms. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Hope Maxwell Snyder received an MA in Latin American Literature from Johns Hopkins and a Ph.D. in Spanish Medieval Literature from the University of Manchester. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Alehouse Press, The Comstock Review, The Gettysburg Review, International Poetry Review, OCHO, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics, and other journals. In 2009 Hope won a scholarship to attend Western Michigan University’s program in Prague. This year she was awarded a fellowship at The Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers. Hope is the founder and director of the Sotto Voce Poetry Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Guidelines for the 2011 Donald Everett Axinn Fiction and Poetry Contributor Scholarships will be available in the fall.