Lesley Poling-Kempes

Lesley Poling-Kempes is the author of fiction and nonfiction books about the American Southwest including “Ghost Ranch,” “The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West,” and “Bone Horses”, a novel. Her most recent book, “Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women & Their Adventures in the American Southwest”, won the WILLA and the Reading the West awards, and was given the prestigious Harris Award from the New Mexico Book Association “for outstanding contribution to the understanding of the people, culture, and history of the American West.”

She lives in Abiquiu, New Mexico.