Laura S DistelheimLaura S. Distelheim's work has received awards from numerous literary journals and has twice been noted for Special Mention in both Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize. In addition, it has received the William Faulkner William WisdomMedal, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, the Press 53 Open Award, the Bruce P. Rossley Literary Award, the Richard J. Margolis Award, an Illinois Arts Council Artist's Fellowship Award and a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and served for twenty years as director of Neighbor to Neighbor, an organization she created to combat hunger among and procure scholarship opportunities for the children of low income families in her community. Read More Read Less