Lesley Bannatyne
Publications
About Lesley
Lesley Bannatyne is the 2024 recipient of the GRACE PALEY AWARD for short fiction for LAKE SONG (Mad Creek Books, 2025). Her debut collection of short stories, Unaccustomed to Grace, was published by Kallisto Gaia Press in 2022. Lesley's fiction and essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Christian Science Monitor, and Zone 3, Shooter, Craft, and many other literary magazines. She won the 2018 Bosque fiction prize and received the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books literary award for fiction and her work has been nominated for the Story Prize, Pushcart, and Best of the Net. As a freelance journalist, she has covered topics ranging from druids in Massachusetts to relief workers in Bolivia. She holds an ALM in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard University Extension Studies.