Author of Lola,California, Crawl Space, and The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon, Edie Meidav has received a Lannan Fellowship, a Howard Fellowship, a Bard Fiction Prize and a Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American woman. Lola, California was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction as one of the best works by a northern California author published in 2011. Edie is writer-in-residence at Bard College.