Babette Fraser Hale did her postgraduate work at the London School of Economics and the UH Creative Writing Program. Her writing has received a Creative Artist award from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and the Meyerson Prize from Southwest Review. Her story "Silences" (SWR, vol. 96, no. 4) was a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters short story award in 2011. Her story “Drouth” appeared last fall in Southwest Review, vol.99, no. 3.
Previous fiction publications include “Joe’s Place” in Her Work: Stories by Texas Women Writers (Shearer, 1982); and “Afterimage” in Domestic Crude, 1982. She’s a part-owner of Brazos Bookstore. From 1996 to 2004, she served as publisher and editor for Winedale Publishing, a small press that was a member of the Texas A&M University Press Consortium. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in Texas Monthly, Houston City Magazine (contributing editor), Houston Home and Garden, Houston Chronicle and The Houston Post.
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