Lyon College Writer-in-Residence Andrea Hollander Budy was the keynote speaker for the 2008 Literary Symposium at Subiaco Academy Feb. 21 where she received the 2008 Subiaco Award for Literary Merit.

Budy was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1947 (of American parents), and raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey. She received her B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. from the University of Colorado. Since 1977 she has lived in the Ozark Mountains near Mountain View with her husband Todd. They have a grown son, Brooke. Budy has served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College since 1991. She received the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching from Lyon in 1998.

The entire student body at Subiaco Academy, a high school for boys, had studied Budy's poetry collection "Woman in the Painting" prior to her Feb. 21 visit. When she was on campus, she gave a morning writing workshop to the 17 students who had entered the Poetry Writing Competition. The name of the winner, Taylor Johns, a freshman at the academy, was announced at the award ceremony after Budy's afternoon public lecture and reading.