Elizabeth Nunez

Elizabeth Nunez is the award-winning author of a memoir and ten novels, four of them selected as New York Times Editors’ Choices. ANNA IN-BETWEEN won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award and was long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award. Nunez also received the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in nonfiction for NOT FOR EVERYDAY USE; an American Book Award for BRUISED HIBISCUS; and a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award from the Trinidad and Tobago National Library. Her other novels are: EVEN IN PARADISE, BOUNDARIES, PROSPERO’S DAUGHTER, BEYOND THE LIMBO SILENCE, BEYOND THE LIMBO SILENCE, GRACE, DISCRETION, and WHEN ROCKS DANCE. Nunez is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, where she teaches courses on fiction writing and Caribbean women writers. NOW LILA KNOWS is her latest novel.