Stephanie P. Ledgin, a freelance writer, photographer and author; CMT.com’s Craig Shelburne; and freelance writer Chris Stuart are in the running for the International Bluegrass Music Associations’ Print Media Person of the Year recognition.

Ledgin won that award in 2005. Her photographs and journalistic efforts have focused on bluegrass and traditional folk music since the mid-1970s, when she became editor of then highly popular Pickin’ bluegrass magazine.

Stephanie P. Ledgin has two books to her credit: Homegrown Music: Discovering Bluegrass was published in 2004. It is described as “a lively introduction for newcomers to the music yet presents a novel perspective for those ‘in the know.’” Ricky Skaggs wrote the forward to the publication. Her second book, From Every Stage: Images of America’s Root Music, published by the University Press of Mississippi in 2005, is a collection of more than 200 photographs and rare interviews that had been unpublished until the book came out. It’s forward is penned by noted CBS News personality Charles Osgood.

Craig Shelburne stays on the news beat for CMT.com, the Web site maintained by the Nashville-based satellite television channel.

Besides contributing indepth reporting of Music City’s most famous industry, he also contributes non-indepth tidbits to the Web site’s blog and keeps the country music fans who flock to CMT.com abreast of happenings in the bluegrass world.

Freelance writer and editor Chris Stuart is best known in IBMA circles for his many contributions to the monthly magazine, Bluegrass Unlimited. This is his third consecutive nomination for IBMA’s Print Person of the Year.

He has written liner notes for albums by Claire Lynch, IIIrd Tyme Out and Rhonda Vincent, and one of his feature articles was included in an anthology of the Best Country Music Writing for 2007.

He is a member of the Author’s Guild and the San Diego Professional Editors Network and holds a Certificate of Copy editing from Extension at the University of California in San Diego. He works on the San Diego campus as an editor in the Division of Biological Sciences.

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