Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize [SEP] conferred by
Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
The Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize is annually awarded for fiction by an American woman.
The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies and the Department of English at the University of Rochester have awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman since 1975. 
Each winner is awarded $7,500. 
The prize is named for a 30-year-old editor killed in an auto accident. Family, friends, and associates in the publishing industry endowed the prize as a memorial to
Hemingway Prize for First Fiction by an American author. The book was republished in 2014 by New York Review Books with an introduction by Meghan O'Rourke. Chase died on 17 April 2018 at the age of 81, after a long illness.
Awards.
- 1983, PEN/Hemingway Prize
- 1984, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- 1987, Whiting Award
- 1990, Guggenheim Fellowship
External links.
- Whiting Foundation Profile