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Interview | Leesa Cross-Smith

October 24, 2018 Reading Women
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Hub City Press, 2018

Hub City Press, 2018

We talk with Leesa Cross-Smith, author of the Whiskey & Ribbons, which is out now from Hub City Press!

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Books Mentioned

  • Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross-Smith

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Author Bio

Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and the author of Whiskey & Ribbons (Hub City Press, 2018), Every Kiss A War (Mojave River Press, 2014), and the forthcoming So We Can Glow (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) and This Close To Okay (Grand Central Publishing, 2021). Her debut novel Whiskey & Ribbons was longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Every Kiss A War was a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction (2012) and the Iowa Short Fiction Award (2012). Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Best Small Fictions, and many others. Find more @ LeesaCrossSmith.com.

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