Helen elaine lee biography

WINNER, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE 2024 FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ+ FICTION

FINALIST, 2024 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN FICTION

AMAZON’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * TOP 20 BOOKS OF THE YEAR * ONE OF EDITORS’ SIX PERSONAL FAVORITES

CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 2024 LONGLIST SELECTION

AMAZON’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SO FAR at #6 ( June 14, 2023) * ONE OF EDITORS’ SIX PERSONAL FAVORITES

AMAZON * EDITORIAL REVIEW

An Amazon Best Book of April 2023: "‘People like to think fiction’s less serious than other kinds of writing, and I’m here to tell you it can make the real more bearable.’ So quoth Ranita Atwater, the protagonist of Helen Elaine Lee’s Pomegranate, a sly paeon to the power of great fiction and its ability to be a Trojan horse delivering the truth.

At the start of the novel, Ranita has just been released from a four-year stint in prison, her sobriety is precarious, and she has yet to earn the privilege of seeing her two kids again. First she must fa