Lis Anna-Langston

Lis Anna-Langston is an award-winning author with dozens of awards and publications. Her awards and honors include: Parents’ Choice Gold Book Award, Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, Dante Rossetti First Place Award, Literary Classics Gold, two Pushcart nominations, and the Helene Wurlitzer Grant. She is the author of Tupelo Honey, Skinny Dipping in a Dirty Pond, and the short story collection Tolstoy & the Checkout Girl. Born in the South, she writes about misfits, screw ups, outlaws, and people who generally don’t fit into nicely-labeled boxes. She writes Young Adult, New Adult, and Middle Grade novels, and loves every second of it.

Beyond that, she loves old rotary phones, fireflies on warm summer nights, French hip-hop, falling in love, and all woodland creatures, especially of the alien variety. Her short fiction has been published in dozens of literary journals including: Emrys Journal, The Merrimack Review, Sand Hill Review, and The MacGuffin Literary Review. Her latest novel comes out in 2020 and you can learn more about her here.

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