E. J. Levy

E. J. Levy's gripping historical novel, THE CAPE DOCTOR, based on the life of Dr. James Barry (who was born Margaret Ann Bulkley circa 1789), won a 2022 CO Book Award and 2024 Prix Libr'a Nous for Best Foreign Fiction and was a New York Times Editor's Choice Book. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Best American Essays, Salon, Rumpus, and The New York Times, among other places, and has won a Pushcart Prize, among other honors. She edited Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers, which won the Lambda Literary Award. Her debut story-collection, Love, In Theory, won the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Award, a 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Award, and the 2014 GLCA New Writers Award (given previously to Alice Munro, Louise Erdrich, Richard Ford, and Mary Szybist, for their first books); it was named a 2013 Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year and called "a brilliant debut" by Cheryl Strayed. A French edition of her stories, translate by Celine Leroy, was published in 2015 by Editions Rivages.