These guests talk about the awards that BIO offers for biographers. Heather Clarks is an author, literary critic and chair of BIO’s awards committee. Her most recent book, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, was one of the New York Times Ten Best Books (2021), and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She has won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, along with Guggenheim, NYPL Cullman Center, NEH Public Scholars, and Leon Levy Biography fellowships. BIO’s 2024 Biblio Award winner and biographer Stephen Enniss, heads the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He has brought scores of archives to the University of Texas, including those of Nobel Laureates Gabriel García Márquez and Kazuo Ishiguro. Enniss is a past recipient of the University of London’s Leverhulme Fellowship and the author of After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon. Heather Clark and Stephen Enniss were interviewed by BIO member and podcast producer Jenny Skoog.