Diane Lefer

Diane Lefer's fiction has received awards as well as recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Library of Congress, PEN, and others. Her most recent novels, Out of Place and Confessions of a Carnivore, were both pblished by Fomite and set during Bush's War on Terror. She is the author of three story collections, including California Transit (Mary McCarthy Prize). During the '70's, Diane lived in Maine as a lay advocate with Pine Tree Legal Assistance and wrote about community medicine for Maine Times. Today she lives in Los Angeles with a cat and without a car and where her only phone is a landline.