C.A. Belmond

C.A. Belmond is a novelist, poet, lyricist and scriptwriter, who was awarded the Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship and was twice a Pushcart Press Editors' Book Award finalist, nominated by Jonathan Galassi of Farrar Straus & Giroux, and Nan Talese of Doubleday. Belmond's mentor is Margaret Atwood. Belmond's original screenplays were shortlisted at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. A member of the Writers Guild of America, Belmond has written, directed and produced award-winning television drama and documentary, for CBS, ABC and A&E; and an original children's TV series and song lyrics for PBS. Belmond has taught writing at New York University, and was selected as a writer in residence at the Karolyi Foundation in the South of France. A Rather Lovely Inheritance is Belmond's debut novel.