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Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch is the bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase, and of the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center USA Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Oregon.


Lidia Yuknavitch on Finding the Words to Convey Unfathomable Loss

“I do what I do know how to do. I throw them into stories; I watch them move and I can walk again.”
February 10, 2025  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching

“What is a writer in these times? How do we share the space of writing and making art?”
March 3, 2023  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lidia Yuknavitch Describes Her Four Perfect Writing Spaces

“It would not be an exaggeration to say I have spent my life swimming in the art of others.”
June 28, 2022  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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I Was Already Leaving Florida When I Arrived

Lidia Yuknavitch on Abuse, Love, and How to Gut a Largemouth Bass
November 13, 2017  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class

On Fitting in with Misfits, from Ken Kesey to Melissa Febos
October 17, 2017  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water

On Living a Swimmer's Life
April 12, 2017  By Lidia Yuknavitch
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