Naomi
Benaron is the winner of the 2010 Bellwether prize for a Novel of
Social Change. She was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts and is a
graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Scripps Institute
of Oceanography. Before she lost her mind and decided to devote her
life to writing, she worked for many years as a geophysicist and
seismologist. She has lived on a sailboat, worked on a Kibbutz, and
traveled extensively.
Her passion in writing revolves around
issues of social justice. Her short story collection, Love Letters from
a Fat Man, won the 2006 Sharat Chandra Prize for fiction. Her
Bellwether Prize novel, about a young Tutsi boy growing up in the years
leading up to the genocide in Rwanda, is forthcoming from Algonquin
Books.
Her dog Scout is a published poet. Her dog JillyRoo is happy just to be a dog.
This biography was provided by the author or their representative.
Naomi
Benaron is the winner of the 2010 Bellwether prize for a Novel of
Social Change. She was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts and is a
graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Scripps Institute
of Oceanography. Before she lost her mind and decided to devote her
life to writing, she worked for many years as a geophysicist and
seismologist. She has lived on a sailboat, worked on a Kibbutz, and
traveled extensively.
Her passion in writing revolves around
issues of social justice. Her short story collection, Love Letters from
a Fat Man, won the 2006 Sharat Chandra Prize for fiction. Her
Bellwether Prize novel, about a young Tutsi boy growing up in the years
leading up to the genocide in Rwanda, is forthcoming from Algonquin
Books.
Her dog Scout is a published poet. Her dog JillyRoo is happy just to be a dog.
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