Melody Moezzi '01 received this year’s Georgia Author of the Year Award in the Creative Non-Fiction: Essay category for her book War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims (University of Arkansas Press, 2007). The 44th Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards, sponsored by the Georgia Writers Association, were held on June 7, 2008, at the KSU Center in Kennesaw, Ga. This year, 82 Georgia writers were nominated in 13 categories. Moezzi, an American Muslim of Iranian descent who lives in Atlanta, wrote her book “to affirm the experiences of Muslim Americans as American experiences, as grounded in the American dream and the American ethic as any others.” She tells the stories of 12 very different Americans: from a rapper of Korean and Egyptian decent to a bisexual Sudanese American to a converted white woman from Colorado living in Cairo and wearing the hijab (headscarf). These thoughtful individuals are drawn to the logic, compassion, and tolerance they find in Muslim teachings and are horrified that the religion has become associated with terrorism post 9/11.