Awards

  • The Seamus Heaney Prize in literature for THE BIRD WOMAN, a retelling of Jane Eyre in medieval Iceland (prize includes travel to Sligo, Ireland to attend the Yeats Summer Institute
  • THE TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS OF JOSEPHINE JACKSON, middle grade magical realism story set in 1920’s, a finalist for the Katherine Paterson prize
  •  The Forty Thieves is a Junior Library Guild selection!

GOLD SEAL

  • BIRD GIRL excerpt won Hunger Mountain’s Katherine Paterson Prize in its category. Bird Girl is a YA re-imagining of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, set in medieval Iceland.
  •  Forty Thieves, middle-grade novel manuscript, won the Eldin Fellowship. Judge Louise Hawes says, “Christy Lenzi’s manuscript features, not only an original story, but a compelling voice, vibrant sensory description, and pacing that engages and entices. “