Dawn Turner Trice - Trice is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She is the moderator of the Tribune's online project, "Exploring Race," at www.chicagotribune.com/race. Trice has been a regular commentator for WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" show and has written commentary for National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" program. She is the author of two novels, Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven (Random House, 1997), which is being made into a movie, and An Eighth of August (Random House, 2000). She is the recipient of the 2008 Studs Terkel Media award, two Illinois Arts Council awards, an American Library Association Alex award and a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives outside Chicago with her husband of nearly 20 years---whom she met at Hyde Park Academy--- and their 14-year-old daughter.