Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the national bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children and the widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the Iowa Review, Mother Jones, Ms., the Sun, the Rumpus, PANK, Zyzzyva, Fiction International, and other publications. She is the recipient of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the Readers’ Choice Award. The co-founder of Chiasmus Press, she teaches writing and literature in Oregon.