Fiona Zedde
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Fiona Zedde is the pseudonym of Jamaican-born fiction writer, Fiona Valerie Lewis now living in the United States. Her 2005 novel, Bliss, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award
for debut Lesbian Fiction
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, in 1976, an only child to Dorothy Lindsay and Danny Lewis. At the age of twelve, she moved to the United States with her mother and has lived there ever since. She received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. Fiona currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida where she works as a full-time writer.
. Fiona's fifth novel, Dangerous Pleasures, will be published in February 2011.
Lambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
for debut Lesbian Fiction
Lesbian fiction
Lesbian fiction is a subgenre of fiction that involves one or more primary female homosexual character and lesbian themes. Novels that fall into this category may be of any genres, such as, but not limited to, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and romance.-History:The first...
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Personal Data
Fiona Valerie Lewis was born in Hampton Court, JamaicaJamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
, in 1976, an only child to Dorothy Lindsay and Danny Lewis. At the age of twelve, she moved to the United States with her mother and has lived there ever since. She received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University. Fiona currently resides in St. Petersburg, Florida where she works as a full-time writer.
Writing career
Fiona Zedde is the author of four novels—Bliss, A Taste of Sin, Every Dark Desire, and Hungry for It—and three novellas, Pure Pleasure, Going Wild, and Sexual Attraction published in the collections, Satisfy Me, Satisfy Me Again, and Satisfy Me Tonight, respectively, all with Kensington Publishing. Her first novel, Bliss, and the third, Every Dark Desire, were both finalists for the Lambda Literary AwardLambda Literary Award
Lambda Literary Awards are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes. Categories include Humor, Romance and Biography. To qualify, a book must have been published in the United States in the year current to the award...
. Fiona's fifth novel, Dangerous Pleasures, will be published in February 2011.
External links
- Fiona Zedde website
- Publisher website
- Outside the Lines: Black Lesbian Lit, AfterEllen.com 06/14/06 AfterEllen.com