A novelist, essayist, and poet, Barbara Kingsolver won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Demon Copperhead, which also received the Women's Prize for Fiction. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, she studied biology at DePauw University and earned a master of science degree from the University of Arizona. Her bilingual poetry collection Another America / Otra América appeared from Seal Press in 1992. She founded the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and received the National Humanities Medal in 2011.
