Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Lucy Jane Bledsoe (born February 1, 1957, in Portland, Oregon, United States) is a novelist who has received many awards for her fiction, including two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships, a California Arts Council Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellowship, the American Library Association Stonewall Award, the ''Arts & Letters'' Fiction Prize, the ''Saturday Evening Post'' Fiction Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, two Pushcart nominations, and the Devil's Kitchen Fiction Award. She is a six-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and a three-time finalist for the [http://www.ferrogrumley.org Ferro-Grumley Award].

Bledsoe loves teaching workshops, cooking, traveling anywhere, basketball, doing anything outside, and telling stories. She's traveled to Antarctica three times, as a two-time recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers in Antarctica Fellowship and once as a guest on the Russian ship, the Akademik Sergey Vavilov. She is one of a tiny handful of people who have stayed at all three American stations in Antarctica. She has also stayed in a number of field camps, both on the coast and in the Transantarctic mountains, where scientists are studying penguins, climate change, and the Big Bang. As a social justice activist, she's most recently been working on voting rights.

Bledsoe's autobiographical Young Adult novel, NO STOPPING US NOW, about love, basketball, and activism, will be out in April 2022. Provided by Wikipedia