Michaela Carter
Leonora in the Morning Light
For fans of Amy Bloom’s White Houses and Colm Tóibín’s The Master, a page-turning novel about Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington and the art, drama, and romance that defined her coming-of-age during World War II.
Forthcoming from Avid Reader Press
Available April 6, 2021
About the Author
Michaela Carter is a writer, painter, and an award-winning poet. She studied theater at UCLA and holds an MFA in creative writing from Warren Wilson College. Her novel Further Out Than You Thought was an Indie Next Pick and an Arizona Republic “Republic Recommends” selection for August 2014. She was the Arizona Republic Critic’s Pick for Best Debut Author in 2014. Her poetry won the Poetry Society of America Los Angeles New Poets Contest, has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She is the cofounder of the independent bookstore the Peregrine Book Company, and lives in Prescott, Arizona with her husband and two dogs. Her novel Leonora In the Morning Light is forthcoming from Avid Reader Press in April, 2021.
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