OSUN Faculty

Lucy Ferris

Lucy Ferriss is President of the Board of Afghan Female Student Outreach, a worldwide collective of professors offering online classes and a pathway toward education for university women in Afghanistan. Recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Faulkner Society, and others, she is the author of twelve books, mostly fiction. Recent work includes her memoir of reading, The Man Who Loved Children; her essay collection, Meditations for a New Century (2023); her republished novel The Misconceiver (2022); Foreign Climes: Stories (2021); and the novels A Sister to Honor (2015) and The Lost Daughter (2015). Lucy is Writer in Residence Emerita at Trinity College. She lives in Connecticut and the Berkshires of western Massachusetts.