This year's list is final, a baker's dozen of wonderful authors...

Melissa J. Delbridge, author of Family Bible
Kendall Dunkelberg, author of Time Capsules
Tony Earley, author of The Blue Star
Becky Gould Gibson, author of Aphrodite's Daughter
Ravi Howard, author of Like Trees, Walking
Pearl Amelia McHaney, editor of Occasions: Selected Writings by Eudora Welty and Eudora Welty as Photographer
Jim Murphy, author of Heaven Overland
Bridget Smith Pieschel, editor of Golden Days: Reminiscences of Alumnae, Mississippi State College for Women
Jack Riggs, author of The Fireman's Wife
Natasha Trethewey, author of Native Guard
Frank X Walker, author of When Winter come: The Ascension of York
Jesmyn Ward, author of Where the Line Bleeds
Ken Wells, author of The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Visit the 2009-authors bookshelf to learn more about their books. And feel free to comment on any of them here...