Read SLR's interview with
Paulette Jiles.
Born and raised in the
Missouri Ozarks, Paulette Jiles has
duel citizenship in the United States
and Canada. Canada inspired her to write poetry, but it was her native land
of the Ozark Mountains that led her to make the transition from poetry
to first time novelist.
Before writing
Enemy Women, her debut novel, Jiles was awarded the Governer's
Award, the highest literary honor for poetry in Canada. When asked
she has said that the transition from poetry to novel writing was not so
very difficult. She seems to have enjoyed it. Prior to Enemy
Women, Jiles wrote
Cousins ,
North Spirit: Sojourns Among the Cree and Ojibway. : An article from:
The Women's Review of Books ,
Song to the Rising Sun .
Enemy Women ,
which deals with the lives of women in the split state of Missouri,
brought her recognition in the United States.
Jiles lives in San
Antonio Texas with her husband where she is working on a second novel.
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