Annie Lampman

Fiction Writer

Moscow, ID
Idaho US
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Author's Bio

Annie Lampman is the author of the novel SINS OF THE BEES (Pegasus/Simon & Schuster, September 2020) and the limited-edition letter-press-printed poetry chapbook BURNING TIME (Limberlost Press, Fall 2020). Her narrative essays, poetry, and short fiction have been published or are forthcoming in sixty-some literary journals and anthologies such as The Normal School, Orion Magazine, and The Massachusetts Review. She has been awarded the 2020 American Fiction Award, a 2020 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, the 2019 Dogwood Literary Award in Fiction, the Everybody Writes Award in Poetry, a Best American Essays “Notable,” a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and a national Bureau of Land Management artist’s residency in the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness. She has an MFA in fiction and is an Associate Professor of Honors Creative Writing at the Washington State University Honors College. She lives in Moscow, Idaho on the rolling hills of the Palouse Prairie where she has a pollinator garden full of butterflies, bumblebees, solitary bees, honeybees and songbirds. You can read more about her and her work at annielampman.com

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Sins of the Bees (Pegasus Books, 2020)
Prizes won: 

2020 American Fiction Award,

2020 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts,

2019 Dogwood Literary Award in Fiction,

Everybody Writes Award in Poetry,

Best American Essays “Notable,” 

Pushcart Prize Special Mention,

Bureau of Land Management wilderness artist’s residency in the Owyhee Canyonlands Wilderness

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Flordia by Lauren Groff, The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Orofino, ID
Idaho
Raised in: 
Headquarters, ID
Idaho
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Last update: Sep 13, 2020