Phil Reed Writing Award
Judges
SELC is grateful to the judges who generously volunteered their time and talent for this year's contest:
Marilou Awiakta - Poet and essayist whose writing weaves her Cherokee/Appalachian heritage with science; award winning author of Abiding Appalachia: Where Mountain and Atom Meet, and Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom.
H. Emerson "Chip" Blake - Editor-in-Chief of Orion magazine; former publisher of Milkweed Editions; editor of numerous books on natural history and the environment.
Michael Carlton - Former editor of Yankee Magazine and Coastal Living; former features editor at Philadelphia Inquirer and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Jan DeBlieu - Author of Wind, winner of the 1999 John Burroughs Medal for
Distinguished Natural History Writing, and Year of the Comet; Cape Hatteras
CoastKeeper.
Jim Detjen - Director, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, MSU; founding president of Society of Environmental Journalists; former award-winning reporter for Philadelphia Inquirer.
David Gessner - Author of Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature, and The Prophet of
Dry Hill; winner of the 2005 Pushcart Prize; Editor-in-Chief of Ecotone; on faculty at
UNC Wilmington.
Janet Lembke - Author of Touching Earth, Dangerous Birds, and other nature books; translator of Greek and Latin classics; poems and essays have appeared in Audubon, Southern Review, and The New York Times Book Review.
Will Martin - Nashville-based attorney and businessman; former Dep. Asst. Secretary at NOAA; Senior Fellow for World Wildlife Fund; member SELC President's Council.
Bill McKibben - Author of The End of Nature, Hope Human and Wild, and Enough; contributor to The New Yorker, Orion, and The Atlantic Monthly; visiting scholar Middlebury College.
Deaderick Montague - Civic leader, teacher and writer; guiding inspiration behind creation of the Reed Writing Award; Vice President of SELC Board of Trustees.
Janisse Ray - Author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (Reed winner 2000), Wild Card Quilt, and Pinhook: Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land
Charles Seabrook - Former veteran environmental reporter for the Atlanta Journal- Constitution; author of Cumberland Island and other books; Reed winner in 1998.
Donovan Webster - Author of The Burma Road and After-math: The Remnants of War; former editor of Outside; contributor to The New Yorker, Smithsonian and National Geographic.
