Nonfiction
Carolyn R. Boiarsky
Carolyn Boiarsky is professor of English at Purdue University Calumet and founder and director of the Northwest Indiana Writing Project. She is the author of four books, including Technical Communication: Contexts, Audiences, and Communities and Writings from the Workplace: Documents, Models, and Cases; has published in numerous business and technical communication journals; and has received the Society of Technical Communication’s Frank R. Smith Article of the Year Award.
2026 Nonfiction Shortlist: Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure
Lead Babies and Poisoned Housing: Environmental Injustice, Systemic Racism, and Governmental Failure is the story of how governmental neglect and environmental injustice led to the displacement of more than one thousand minority residents in East Chicago.
