Lydia Paar holds an MFA from Washington University and an MA from Northern Arizona University. Her work was selected by Alexander Chee as the winner of North American Review’s 2020 Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize, has been named as a finalist in contests at Glimmer Train and December, and has been published at The Missouri Review, Essay Daily, Alligator Juniper, Five:2:One, and the Manzano Mountain Review. She co-runs www.nomadartx.com and is finishing a memoir-in-essays. www.lydiapaar.com.