Lucy Ferriss
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Lucy Ferriss

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Born in St. Louis, Lucy Ferriss has lived on both coasts, in the middle, and abroad. She is the author of eleven books, mostly fiction. Her 1997 novel THE MISCONCEIVER, a dystopic fiction set 15 years after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, has just been re-released by Wandering Aengus Press. FOREIGN CLIMES, her second collection of stories, is out from Brighthorse Books, which awarded her their 2020 award. Also still available are the novels A SISTER TO HONOR (Penguin 2015) and the bestselling THE LOST DAUGHTER (Berkley 2012). Her memoir UNVEILING THE PROPHET was called Best Book of the Year by the Riverfront Times; her novel NERVES OF THE HEART was a finalist in the Peter Taylor Prize competition; her collection LEAVING THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND OTHER STORIES was the 2000 winner of the Mid-List First Series Award. Other short fiction and essays have appeared most recently in the New York Times, Missouri Review, Shenandoah, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Georgia Review, and have received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Faulkner Society, the Fulbright Commission, and the George Bennett Fund, among others, She received her Ph.D. from Tufts University and currently lives with Don Moon in the Berkshires and in Connecticut, where she is Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College. She has two strong sons and abiding passions for music, politics, travel, tennis, and wilderness. Watch for her forthcoming book of essays, "Meditations for a New Century," and her next novel, "Paris Every Moment." Visit Lucy and subscribe to her newsletter at http://lucyferriss.com.
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