Nancy Rawles is an Americanplaywright,novelist, andteacher. She is a 2006 recipient of theAlex Award.

Rawles grew up inLos Angeles. She graduated fromNorthwestern University with a degree in journalism. Rawles studied play writing in Chicago withLinda Walsh Jenkins andSteven Carter. She later studied withC. Bernard Jackson of the Los Angeles (Inner City) Cultural Center andValerie Curtis Newton of The Hansberry Project. She is a contributor to the Female Sexual Ethics Project atBrandeis University under the direction of Bernadette Brooten, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies.^[1]

In 2005,Booklist includedMy Jim on their list of year's the best "Adult Books for Young Adults".^[2]

In 2007, Rawles received anArtist Trust Fellowship in Fiction.^{[citation needed]}

• Love Like Gumbo. Fjord Press. 1997.ISBN 978-0-940242-75-3.
• Crawfish Dreams. Random House, Inc. 2003.ISBN 978-0-385-50418-8.
• My Jim. Crown Publishers. 2005.ISBN 978-1-4000-5400-8.

• Rawles, Nancy (July 10, 2005)."Chains of Madness".The Washington Post. RetrievedMay 19, 2010.

• "Nancy Rawles Revisits a Twain Character for 'My Jim'",NPR, Alan Cheuse, February 22, 2005
• Barbara Lloyd McMichael (May 3, 2009).""Seattle Reads:" Huck Finn's adventure, Jim's ordeal".The Seattle Times.
• Frances Dinger (May 27, 2009)."Author Nancy Rawles retells Twain classic in 'My Jim'".The Seattle University Spectator. Archived fromthe original on October 1, 2009.
• Sarah Anne Johnson, ed. (2006)."I Try to Write Rhythmically".The Very Telling: Conversations with American Writers. UPNE. p. 169.ISBN 978-1-58465-594-7.
• Erin Texeira (April 4, 2005)."'My Jim' adds slave's insight to Huck's story".The Los Angeles Times.
• "The Importance of Place: Lisa Albers talks with prominent local authors about their writing",Seattle Woman

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