Lisa Sandlin Author

Lisa Sandlin's 2015 debut crime novel, The Do-Right won The Shamus Best First Private Eye Novel Award and the Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Fiction. The second book in the series The Bird Boys was chosen by Marilyn Stasio as One of the Ten Best Crime Novels of the Year. Lisa's awards include an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Jesse Jones award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Best Book of Fiction, a Dobie Paisano Fellowship, Violet Crown Award, Pushcart Prize, New Mexico Book Award, and the Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction from A&U, America's AIDS magazine. She is an emeritus professor from The Writer's Workshop, University of Nebraska Omaha and she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.