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, out from Kallisto Gaia Press in
March, 2022.
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Finalist, Book of the Year, Short Stories Independent Author Network
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There is a clear-hearted and humane writer at work here, whose work holds room for both suffering and grace.
—Shruti Swami, A House is a Body
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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