Lâle Davidson’s novel Blue Woman Burning will be published by Red Penguin Books in the fall of 2021. Her collection of short stories Strange Appetites won the Adirondack Center for Writing’s People’s Choice Award for 2016. Since then, she has published two other novels, Against the Grain, an environmental thriller with a mystical twist, and Beyond Sight, a ghost story set in Saratoga Springs, NY, where she lives.
She is a Distinguished Professor who has taught writing for 27 years at a community college where she recently received the Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities (2018).
Her stories have appeared in The North American Review, Eclectica, and Gone Lawn among others. She was a finalist for the Franz Kafka Award issued by Doctor T.J. Eckleburgh Review as well as the Black Lawrence Chapbook Contest of 2015 and The Talking Writing Award for humorous writing advice. Her story “The Opal Maker” was named top fifty of 2015 very short fiction publications by Wigleaf.
P. S. Her first name is pronounced “lolly” more or less, and is Turkish for tulip. She’s not Turkish. In fact, her ancestors on both sides came to America over 300 years ago. But her parents took the family all over the world and lived in Turkey for three years before she was born.
A Writing Life: Lâle Davidson 