Fiona Zedde (born January 24, 1976) is the pen name of Jamaican-born American fiction writer Fiona Lewis . Her 2005 novel, ''Bliss'', was a finalist for the

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, June 14, 2006.

Background

Lewis was born in

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, in 1976, an only child to Dorothy Lindsay and Danny Lewis. At the age of twelve, she moved to the United States with her mother and has lived there ever since. She received an M.F.A. in creative writing from

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. Zedde is the author of six novels: ''Bliss'', ''A Taste of Sin'', ''Every Dark Desire'', ''Hungry for It'', ''Dangerous Pleasures'', and ''Broken in Soft Places''. She has also written three novellas: ''Pure Pleasure'', ''Going Wild'', and ''Sexual Attraction'' published in the collections ''Satisfy Me'', ''Satisfy Me Again'' and ''Satisfy Me Tonight'', respectively''. Her first novel, ''Bliss'', and the third, ''Every Dark Desire'', were both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award. Her seventh novel, ''Desire at Dawn'', will be published in June 2014.

Personal life

She is a lesbian. Zedde lives in

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