Bo Caldwell (born 1955) is the

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of the national bestseller ''The Distant Land of My Father'' (2002), and ''The City of Tranquil Light'' (2011). The former was the selection for

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Reads 2008. Her short fiction has been published in ''Ploughshares'', ''Story'', ''Epoch'', and other literary journals. A former Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University, she lives in

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with her husband, Ron Hansen, and her two children.

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1955 births Living people American women writers Stegner Fellows 21st-century American women {{US-story-writer-stub