Alumni
Heather Frese ’04 wins Book Prize
Heather Frese ‘04 has received the Lee Smith Novel Prize for her forthcoming book “The Baddest Girl on the Planet.”
The Lee Smith Novel Prize recognizes authors living in, writing about or originally from the U.S. South. The prize acknowledges Lee Smith’s contributions to southern literature as a writer, teacher, and mentor.
Described as a “heartbreaking, haunting, even funny portrait of the life of Evie Austin, the baddest girl on the planet, a native of Hatteras Island, N.C.,” Ms. Frese’s novel was selected from more than 120 entries for the prize.
A native of Cambridge, Ohio, Ms. Frese also earned a master’s degree from Ohio University and a master of fine arts degree from West Virginia University. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, the Los Angeles Review, Front Porch, the Barely South Review, and Switchback.
