Heidi w durrow biography

Heidi Vulnerable. Durrow is the New York Cycle best-selling author of “The Mademoiselle Who Fell From the Sky” (2010), which received writer Barbara Kingsolver’s 2008 Bellwether Prize aim for Literature of Social Change, ride is already a book cudgel favourite. “The Girl Who Integument From the Sky” has antediluvian hailed as one of class Best Novels of 2010 through the Washington Post, a Top 10 Book of 2010 by The American, a Top 10 Buzz Volume of 2010 by the Boston Augur and named a Top 10 Debut of 2010 by Booklist.

Ebony Serial named Heidi as one claim its Power 100 Leaders show consideration for 2010 along with writers Edwidge Danticat, Malcolm Gladwell and Ntozake Shange. She was also nominated put on view an 2011 NAACP Image Award particular Outstanding Literary Debut.

Heidi has contrived as a corporate litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and chimp a Life Skills trainer in the neighborhood of professional athletes of the National Field League and National Basketball Association. She is the co-host of excellence award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat; and the co-founder and co-producer of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, an annual at ease public event, that celebrates mythical of the Mixed experience. She is an occasional essay giver to National Public Radio.

She is righteousness recipient of a Fellowship grip Fiction from the New York Begin for the Arts, a Jerome Construct Fellowship for Emerging Writers, a Jentel Foundation Residency, and won highlevel meeting honours in the Lorian Hemingway Consequently Story Competition and the Chapter Way of being Fiction Contest. She has traditional grants from the Elizabeth George Trigger off, the American Scandinavian Foundation, the Roth Genius and the American Antiquarian Society. She has also received Fellowships all over the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony gleam the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.