Emerging Author Finalist, Indiana Authors Award

imageI’m thrilled and honored to share with you that I have been selected by The Indianapolis Public Library Foundation as an Emerging Author finalist for the 2015 Eugene & Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award 

Please help me show support for the Indiana Authors Award and this year’s pool of winners and finalists by:

  • Sharing the this news on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #INauthor, and by tagging@INAuthorsAward on Twitter and/or Facebook
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  • Purchasing individual or full table tickets for the Award Dinner on Oct. 10, 2015
  • Attending the Indy Author Fair on Oct. 10, 2015 at Central Library in downtown Indianapolis

Please join me in supporting the Indiana Authors Award and the many talented authors with Indiana roots!

I was also a finalist in 2014, and I enjoyed traveling to Indianapolis for the awards dinner, meeting the other winners and finalists, and mingling with local writers, readers, and supporters of the Indianapolis Public Library.

This year, the National Winner of the IAA is poet Marianne Boruch. The Regional Winner is poet Adrian Matejka. And the other two finalists for the Emerging Author award are Laura Bates and Skila Brown. I’m really looking forward to meeting them all in October!

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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