Celia Lasky

Celia Laskey is the author of So Happy for You and Under the Rainbow, a finalist for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her other work has appeared in Catapult, Guernica, The Minnesota Review, Day One, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and currently lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their dog Whiskey.

Celia can be found at celialaskey.com.

Charitable Organization: Lambda Literary

Praise

“Laskey composes elegant portraits of each character, drawing us into intimate worlds that pulse with light and sound… these individuals will come together in ways that leave them forever altered; a few will even grow to recognize the humanity in people they’ve long reviled. In Laskey’s artful hands this moral is delivered with such conviction and grace that it somehow feels fresh, and, thus, essential.”
- The New York Times Book Review

“Intimate and psychologically keen… In the case of Under the Rainbow, a fragmentary structure works, underscoring how emotional change happens in individual and complicated ways. The organization is not uniformly heroic, nor are the locals uniformly buffoonish. Though there’s something like a happily ever after, it’s modest and hard fought for… Laskey’s vision of inclusion is all-encompassing. It’s also alert to how halting and surprising the path can be.”
- The Los Angeles Times Book Review

“We gain a window into multiple minds, unforced and lacking in agenda, a surprising and refreshing thing in a book whose agenda does seem clear… Under the Rainbow will ring true for a wide audience, regardless of gender expression and sexuality, for its wry humor and universal truths.”
- Lambda Literary