Nina Revoyr

Nina Revoyr is an American novelist and social worker, best known for her award-winning 2003 novel Southland.^[1]

Born in Japan to a Japanese mother and a Polish American father,^[2] she grew up in Tokyo, Wisconsin and Los Angeles.^[2] After attending Yale University,^[2] she taught English in Japan for two years before returning to the United States, where she took an MFA in creative writing at Cornell University.^[2] She published her first novel, The Necessary Hunger, in 1997.^[2]

Her 2003 novel Southland won the Ferro-Grumley Award and the 16th Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction in 2004, and was an Edgar Award finalist.^[3] It was named as a Book Sense pick, and as one of the best books of 2003 by the Los Angeles Times.^[1] Her third novel, The Age of Dreaming, was published in 2008 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and her fourth novel Wingshooters was named one of "Ten Titles to Pick Up Now" by Oprah Winfrey's O magazine,^[4] won an Indie Booksellers' Choice Award and Midwest Booksellers Choice Award,^[3] and was a nominee in the Lesbian Fiction category at the 24th Lambda Literary Awards.^[5]

An out lesbian,^[6] she works as an executive with Children's Institute Inc., a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization which assists children affected by domestic or neighbourhood violence.^[1]

Works

• The Necessary Hunger (1997, ISBN 0312181426)
• Southland (2003, ISBN 1888451416)
• The Age of Dreaming (2008, ISBN 1933354461)
• Wingshooters (2011, ISBN 1936070715)

References

External links

• Official website