Jaimee Wriston Colbert

Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of seven books of fiction: How Not to Drown (Jaimee Wriston), Vanishing Acts, Wild Things, Shark Girls, Dream Lives of Butterflies, Climbing the God Tree, and Sex, Salvation, and the Automobile. A new novel, Secrets of the Lost Daughters, is forthcoming from Livingston Press, April 13, 2027. Her books won the 2021 and 2018 International Book Awards, the 2021 NYC Big Book Award in General Fiction, CNY 2017 Fiction Award, Willa Cather Fiction Prize, Zephyr Prize, IPPY Gold Medal, and the Ian MacMillan Fiction Award. Originally from Hawaii, she lives in upstate New York, where she is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Writing, Binghamton University.