Cassie Packard is a freelance writer and reviews editor at frieze magazine who is particularly interested in worldbuilding practices and networks, with queerness as a frame and focus. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the...

Thomas Lawson is an artist, educator and writer. For the first time in the prize’s history, the Rabkin Foundation commissioned portraits of the winners in the spaces where they write and conducted interviews with them about their lives and ideas. Here is Mary Louise Schumacher, a longtime...