I am watching my daughter nursing the baby. She is incandescent, my daughter, like a Renaissance Madonna. Her skin is alabaster and her hair haloes in the sunlight that slips through the kitchen window and slides off the bones of her face. It’s the gorgeous hair some women get while pregnant—mine grew six inches during […]
Lesley Bannatyne
LESLEY BANNATYNE received the 2018 Bosque Literary Journal fiction prize, the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award first place for fiction and theghoststory.com 2020 summer fiction prize. Her work has been published in the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Christian Science Monitor, and Zone 3, Pangyrus, Craft, and other literary magazines. Her debut collection of short stories, Unaccustomed to Grace, came out March 8, 2022 from Kallisto Gaia Press. As a freelance journalist, Lesley has covered stories ranging from druids in Massachusetts to relief workers in Bolivia. She writes extensively on popular culture, and her most recent non-fiction book, Halloween Nation, was short-listed for a Bram Stoker Award. Lesley's master’s in Creative Writing is from Harvard Extension Studies and she lives and works in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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