Michelle Blair Wilker In Conversation With Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Published: Sept. 13, 2018, 4:36 p.m.

b'Michelle Blair Wilker is a Los Angeles-based writer and producer. Her work has appeared in "Across the Margin", "Whistlingfire", "Hollywood Dementia", and "The Huffington Post". She was a finalist in Glimmer Train\\u2019s November 2012 contest for new writers and was short listed for the Fresher Writing Prize in 2015. In 2017, she attended DISQUIET: Dzanc Books International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal, and was featured in The New Short Fiction Series in Los Angeles. TV producing credits include Stand Up to Cancer and The Grammys.\\n\\nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of five previous novels, including \'The Evolution of Love\'. Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, a Pushcart nomination, a Yaddo Fellowship, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She\\u2019s been a six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and a two-time Ferro-Grumley Award Finalist. Bledsoe lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills.'