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Name Ms. Lesley Poling-Kempes
Email 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.
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