Lydia Conklin
Assistant Professor of English
Lydia Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a Creative Writing Fellowship from Emory University, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the James Merrill House, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Paris Review, One Story, and VQR. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, and graphic fiction for The Believer, Lenny Letter, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. Last year they served as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Fiction at the University of Michigan and they are currently an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was published by Catapult in North America and Scribner in the UK.
Specialization(s)
Fiction, Graphic Fiction, Graphic Memoir
Representative publications
BOOKS:
Rainbow Rainbow, story collection
Catapult, North America, May 2022
Scribner, United Kingdom, June 2022
SELECTED FICTION PUBLICATIONS:
Anthologies:
Pushcart Prize Anthology XLV, 2020
“Laramie Time”
Love Stories for Turbulent Times (Best of 25 Years of the Pushcart Prize), 2018
“Counselor of My Heart”
Pushcart Prize Anthology XLII, 2018
“Counselor of My Heart”
Magazines:
McSweeney’s, December 2022 (forthcoming)
“The Starlight”
Sewanee Review, Fall 2022 (forthcoming)
“On the Sound”
Joyland Magazine, October 2022 (forthcoming)
“World Peace Now”
Electric Literature Recommended Reading, May 2022
“Laramie Time”
Other Publications:
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: Amy Cutler: A Narrative Thread Catalogue, Winter 2021
“Sound House”
Awards
Stegner Fellowship in Fiction, Stanford University, 2019-2021
StoryKnife Fellowship, August 2021
MacDowell Colony Fellowships: June-July 2021 and June-July 2011
Pushcart Prizes: “Laramie Time,” Fall 2020, “Counselor of My Heart,” Fall 2017,
and “Rockaway,” Fall 2011
100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories, “Island of Beginnings” 2020,
“The Black Winter of New England,” 2017