Barbara Kingsolver is a novelist, essayist, and poet. Her novel Demon Copperhead, set in Appalachia at the onset of the opioid epidemic, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize and was selected in a New York Times readers’ poll as the best book of the 21st Century. Her eighteen books also include the bestselling novels Unsheltered, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, and others, as well as the influential nonfiction book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the 2024 National Book Awards. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
