The Malahat Review congratulates Rebecca Foust of Kentfield, California, on winning the 2014 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize! Her story, "Venn Diagrams," was chosen from over 160 entries by final judge Priscila Uppal. Foust's story will appear in our Winter 2014 issue (#189). She was awarded a $1,000 prize for her win.

Of Foust's story, Uppal said: "Venn Diagrams" is a unique meditation on mortality that recasts memoirs of pregnancy and motherhood into concrete representations of where lives can and cannot intersect. Although the author utilizes the clever and appealing visual conceit of Venn diagrams, her narrative retains all the raw emotion and honest confession of someone who has lived with the chaos of illnesses—her own and those of her autistic son. "In those dark moments I can draw no neat circle to contain my fear nor find any logic to confute the calculus of loss," she writes; yet, her story offers readers a space in which to acknowledge the radius of mourning that touches us all.

Rebecca Foust’s books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song, awarded the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize and nominated for the Poet’s Prize; and God, Seed, awarded the 2010 Foreword Book of the Year Award and a Mass Book Award finalist. Foust received an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson in 2010 and is the 2014 Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place. She is also the recipient of a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. New poems are in current or forthcoming issues of Bellingham Review, Hudson Review, Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, North American Review, Omniverse, Southern Poetry Review, and other journals. Check out her website here.

Congratulations to the finalists for the 2014 Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize: Andrew Bryant, David Manicom, and Catherine Owen.

Watch for an interview with Rebecca Foust on the Malahat website in December 2014.