Lesley Bannatyne is an American author who writes extensively on Halloween, especially its history, literature, and contemporary celebration. As a freelance journalist, she's covered stories ranging from druids in Somerville, Massachusetts to relief workers in Bolivia. Bannatyne's fiction is collected in her debut
collection Unaccustomed
to Grace (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022). She is the 2024 Grace Paley Award Winner for LAKE SONG, forthcoming from Mad Creek Books in 2025.
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Grace Paley Award Winner
Lake Song, forthcoming from Mad Creek Books, 2025. READ MORE
Finalist, Book of the Year, Short Stories Independent Author Network
Lesley Bannatyne's wise, warm, wily debut collection of short stories is unsparing in its darkness, and balanced, beautifully, with moments of - and the ever-present possibility of - light.
—Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe
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