ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and grew up in a Mexican-American family. She attended University of Southern California on a Trustee Scholarship. A Lambda Literary Fellow, she has had work featured by the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, CRATE Literary Magazine's "cratelit", "Camera Obscura"'s Bridge the Gap Series, and "The Portland Review". "The Weight of Feathers "is her first novel.