Nancy Rawles is an American playwright, novelist, and teacher. She is a 2006 recipient of the Alex Award.

Life

Rawles grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism. Rawles studied play writing in Chicago with Linda Walsh Jenkins and Steven Carter. She later studied with C. Bernard Jackson of the Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center and Valerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project at Brandeis University under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.

Awards

In 2005, Booklist included My Jim on their list of year's the best "Adult Books for Young Adults".

In 2007, Rawles received an Artist Trust Fellowship in Fiction.[citation needed]

Awards for Rawles's writing
YearWorkAwardResultRef.
2009My JimSeattle Reads[citation needed]
1998Love Like GumboAmerican Book AwardWinner[citation needed]
1998Washington State Governor's Writers Award[citation needed]
2000Astraea Foundation, Claire of the Moon Award for Fiction[citation needed]
2006My JimAlex AwardsWinner
2006My JimHurston/Wright Legacy Award in FictionWinner

Works

Novels

  • Love Like Gumbo. Fjord Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-940242-75-3.
  • . Random House, Inc. 2003. ISBN 978-0-385-50418-8.
  • . Crown Publishers. 2005. ISBN 978-1-4000-5400-8.

Criticism

  • Rawles, Nancy (July 10, 2005). . The Washington Post.

External links

  • Barbara Lloyd McMichael (May 3, 2009). . The Seattle Times.
  • Frances Dinger (May 27, 2009). . The Seattle University Spectator. Archived from on October 1, 2009.
  • Sarah Anne Johnson, ed. (2006). . The Very Telling: Conversations with American Writers. UPNE. p. 169. ISBN 978-1-58465-594-7.
  • Erin Texeira (April 4, 2005). . The Los Angeles Times.