About Janna Brooke Wallack
Janna Brooke Wallack’s stories have appeared in literary publications such as HOBART, UPSTREET, and AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW. Her short story “Campaigning” was a finalist for the LASCAUX Prize in Short Fiction. This novel’s prologue “Five Pictures” was a finalist for GGLIMMER TRAIN PRESS’s Short Story Award for New Writers, and her story “Cat and Rose” received a Pushcart nomination by THE MACGUFFIN. NAKED GIRL was awarded the Reader’s Favorite Five Star seal and it won BookViral’s Golden Quill Award. The novel also received the Indie B.R.A.G. Medallion Award and it is finalist for the Colorado Independent Publisher’s Association EVVY Award for Literary Fiction.
Wallack grew up in Miami Beach in the 1970’s and 80’s, a landscape and childhood that inspired her debut novel. She now resides in New York’s Hudson River Valley where she writes, works, and never gives up trying to lose ten pounds.
