Summary

Lidia Yuknavitch is the National Bestselling author of the novelsThe Book of JoanandThe Small Backs of Children, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award, the novelDora: A Headcase, and a critical book on war and narrative,Allegories Of Violence(Routledge). Her widely acclaimed memoirThe Chronology of Waterwas a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice.The Misfit’s Manifesto, a book based on her recent TED Talk, was published by TED Books. Her new collection of fiction,Verge, is due out from Riverhead Books in Winter 2020.

She has also had w88 slot online appear in publications including Guernica Magazine, Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuytin Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus.

She founded the workshop series Corporeal w88 slot online in Portland Oregon, where she teaches both in person and online. She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son, Miles. She is a very good swimmer.

Education

• Ph.D. in Literature, University of Oregon