Wilkes University creative writing MFA graduate Dawn D’Aries Zera is a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction.
Zera’s “Earth Teach Me” is one of ten books in the running for the $25,000 prize and publishing contract with Algonquin Books.
The Bellwether Award was established by Barbara Kingsolver in 2000 as a way to promote fiction that highlights social justice and the effect culture and politics have on human relationships.
The winner will be announced on March 1, 2016.