Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the recipient of the 2009 Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, the 2009 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She is the author of three novels, a collection of short fiction, a collection of narrative nonfiction, and many books for children. Bledsoe is one of a tiny handful of people who have spent time at all three American stations in Antarctica. Her novel about three women living on that wild continent, The Big Bang Symphony, will be published in spring 2010.
