Bonnie Nadzam

Bonnie Nadzam is an American writer. Her fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Orion Magazine, Granta, The Kenyon Review, The Alaska Quartery Review, and many other journals. Her first novel, Lamb, was recipient of the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty Dunnan First Novel Prize, long-listed for the Bailey’s Prize in the UK, translated into several languages and was made into an award-winning independent film Lamb starring Ross Partridge and Oona Laurence and produced by Orchard. She is co-author of Love in the Anthropocene with Environmental Ethicist Dale Jamieson. Her second novel, Lions, was released by Grove Atlantic in 2016. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Environmental Studies from Carleton College, a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University (2004) and an MA and PhD from the University of Southern California (2010). She is a student of the White Plum Asanga and lives with her partner and their children on a small farm in The Driftless.