Speakers/Chautauqua Catalog
Name | Ms. Lesley Poling-Kempes |
jlpkempes@gmail.com | |
Phone | 505/685-4579 |
Address | Box 36 Abiquiu, NM 87510 US |
Biographical Info | Lesley Poling-Kempes is the award winning author of six books of fiction and nonfiction about the American Southwest including “Bone Horses� winner of the 2014 WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction and the Tony Hillerman Award for Best Fiction, and “The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West,� winner of the Zia Award and recently optioned for a television series. Her newest book “Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women & Their Adventures in the American Southwest� won the 2015 Reading the West Book Award for nonfiction from the MPIBA, a Silver Medal in US History from the 2016 IPPY Awards, and is a WWA Spur Award finalist in historic nonfiction. She lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico. |