Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is the nationally 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. Her new book, Reading the Waves, is out now from Riverhead. 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 Award for creative nonfic­tion. She lives in Oregon.