The 2004 winner of the
Bellwether Prize for Fiction was Marjorie Kowalski Cole
for her novel, Correcting the Landscape.
Cole has lived in Seattle
and Ireland, but since 1966 has been a resident of Alaska, where
her novel is set. She has Master’s Degrees in English and Library
Science, and has published numerous stories, essays, and poems.
She lives in Ester, Alaska, with her husband and two sons.
The winning novel, Cole’s first, was selected by judges Barry
Lopez, Anna Quindlen and Terry Karten for the strength of its
writing and powerful portrayal of an Alaskan community imperiled
by allegiances both within and beyond itself. Kingsolver, founder
of the prize, hailed Correcting the Landscape as “subtle,
politically intelligent, and personally mesmerizing—everything
the Bellwether novel should be.”
Correcting the Landscape is being published by HarperCollins Publishers.
