Kent Wascom's first novel, THE BLOOD OF HEAVEN, was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and NPR. It was shortlisted for the David J. Langum Sr. Prize for Historical Fiction, and longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan Award for First Fiction. Wascom was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction. SECESSIA, his second novel, will be published July 7 2015. He lives on a wildlife sanctuary near New Orleans.
