Babette Fraser Hale

A WALL OF BRIGHT DEAD FEATHERS is my collection of short stories that won the 2022 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the state's premier honor society for authors. THIS FAMILIAR HEART: An Improbable Love Story is my second book, to be published this April.

I’ve been writing for publication since I was fifteen, but my passion—of the inanimate variety—is books. I’ve been a journalist, editor, publisher, part owner of a bookstore, and all the time writing fiction. This Familiar Heart is my first book length non-fiction.

Both the story collection and the memoir are set in Texas, where I live.

I hope you enjoy them.-- Babette Fraser Hale