Jamie Lisa Forbes
AUTHOR

Jamie Lisa Forbes

Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
Jamie Lisa Forbes was raised on a ranch on the Little Laramie River thirty miles west of Laramie, Wyoming. Like many Wyoming children of her generation, she attended a one-room schoolhouse during her early school years.
She received a degree in Philosophy and English from the University of Colorado in 1977. In January 1979, Ms. Forbes and her husband returned to the Little Laramie Valley where, for fifteen years, they ran the family ranch and raised two children.
The Forbes family ranch was sold in 1993 and Ms. Forbes then moved to Greensboro, North Carolina. She began writing her first novel, Unbroken, while in law school.
In 2011, Unbroken won the WILLA Literary Award for best outstanding contemporary fiction about women in the West.
Her short story collection, The Widow Smalls and Other Stories, published by Pronghorn Press in 2014, won the 2015 High Plains Book Awards, short story category.
Her second novel, Eden, about rural life in segregated North Carolina was published in 2020.
In 2024, her third novel, Sunny Gale--A Novel, was published by Pronghorn Press. Sunny Gale--A Novel received a Will Rogers silver medallion for excellence in historical fiction. It was named as a Finalist in The Feathered Quill Book Awards, women's fiction category, and a Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, historical fiction category. The novel was additionally honored with a listing in Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2024.
Forbes continues to live, and write, in North Carolina.
Read more Read less

Try Audible membership today. Start enjoying the benefits.

Try Audible for free with an audiobook of your choice.
Try Standard free
Auto-renews at AUD $8.99/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Most Popular

Product list
  • Sunny Gale cover art
    Preview

    $25.22 or free with 30-day trial