Lidia Yuknavitch is the national bestselling author of the novels
The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase,
and the memoir The Chronology of Water. Her acclaimed TED Talk “The
Beauty of Being a
Misfit” has over 2 million views. She is the recipient of two
Oregon Book Awards, a Willamette Writers Award, and was a finalist
for the 2017 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the 2012
Pen Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She writes, teaches, and
lives in Portland, Oregon.
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