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Vanessa Blakeslee's latest book is Perfect Conditions: stories, winner of the 2018 INDIEFAB Book of the Year for Short Stories (Gold) from Foreword Reviews, the National Indie Excellence Award for Short Stories (Gold), and the 2019 Independent Publisher's Award (IPPY) for Short Story Fiction (Silver), and finalist for the Montaigne Medal, among others. Blakeslee is also the author of the novel, Juventud (Curbside Splendor, 2015), hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "tale of self-discovery and intense first love." Her debut collection, Train Shots (Burrow Press) won the 2014 IPPY Gold Medal. The book was also long-listed for the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was optioned for a feature film. Her writing has appeared in The Southern Review, Green Mountains Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Globe and Mail, and Kenyon Review Online, among many others. Finalist for the 2014 Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award, she has also been awarded grants and residencies from Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Banff Centre, Writers Omi, the Ragdale Foundation, and in 2013 received the Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.
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