Announcing the winners of the
2002 Writer's Digest Writing Competition

Memoirs/Personal Essay Winners

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Kathryn Hughes
Defying Gravity
Evanston, IL

Maria Caruso
Imaginary Wheatfields
Portland, OR

Rebecca Payne
Week of the Hyacinths Blooming
East Lansing, MI

Jane Holly Love
Destination Beauty Parlor
Santa Rosa, CA

Diana Kiesners
Ten Shallow Wells, One Deep One
Toronto, ON, Canada

Jeanne Holtzman
My Life with Breasts
Franklin, MA

Sylvia Whitman
Managed Care
Orlando, FL

Lisa Cahn
Untitled
New York, NY

D'Arcy Fallon
So Late, So Soon
Colorado Springs, CO

Andrea Palpant
The War and the Water
Spokane, WA

Jack Slay, Jr.
Hot Roach, et al.
LA Grange, GA

Mary M. McAlister
Rants from an Errant Catholic
Indialantic, FL

Ashley McCullough
Six Inch Revlon
San Francisco, CA

Linda Baker Fradin
Ghost Riders
Wilmette, IL

Annie Forbes Cooper
One Woman's Odyssey in Breast Cancer World Post 9/11
New York, NY

Valerie Katagiri
Love Tales
Beaverton, OR

Dorothy Lam
Upon Examination
Houston, TX

Julie Saffrin
The Carpenter
Excelsior, MN

Tracey Durgan
The Taming of Girls
Burlington, VT

John H. Farr
Easter In The Wilderness
Taos, NM

Barbara Joy Laffey
1964, Sidney
Freeland, WA

Doris Lockhart
The Prayer
Dallas, TX

Valorie Grace Hallinan
One Wild and Precious Life
Fairport, NY

Katy M. Zirbel
Salamander Skin
Truckee, CA

Grethchen Heyer
Truth and Dare
Houston, TX