Sonja Livingston

Sonja Livingston’s most recent book, Ladies Night at the Dreamland, combines history, memory,and imagination to illuminate the lives of women from America’s recent and distant past. She’s also the author of the recent essay collection, Queen of the Fall, and the childhood memoir, Ghostbread, which won an AWP Award in Nonfiction. Her writing has been honored with a New York Arts Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, and Arts & Letters Essay Prize, and grants from Vermont Studio Center and The Deming Fund for Women. Sonja teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Memphis.