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Lucy Bledsoe
Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s eighth novel, TELL THE REST, received starred reviews in both Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, and the New York Times said her work “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, three Pushcart nominations, a Yaddo Fellowship, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She’s been a three time finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award, and a six time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.