Trudy Lewis

Trudy Lewis is the author of the short story collection The Bones of Garbo, winner of the Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction(Ohio State University Press). Her work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, Fence and others. Her first novel, Private Correspondences, won the William Goyen Prize (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press). Trudy is currently Director of Writing at the University of Missouri. "Blue Vase" is based on historical accounts of the poet Lucy Larcom and her mentor John Greenleaf Whittier. Research for this story was conducted at the Marion B. Gebbie Archives & Sopecial Collections at Wheaton College.