Hayley O’Malley (PhD candidate, English, University of Michigan) is the winner of the Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize for ASAP10 New Orleans. The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present will honor O’Malley for her paper, “Filming Everyday Freedom: The Black Feminist Praxis of Kathleen Collins’s Filmography,” which focuses on the 1982 film, Losing Ground, which was written and directed by Kathleen Collins, one of the first African American women to direct a feature film.