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Lidia Yuknavitch is the national bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, which won the Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. She has also published Allegories of Violence, the short story collection Verge, and two memoirs, The Chronology of Water and Reading the Waves. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Ms., The Iowa Review, and many other publications. Lidia founded Corporeal Writing in Portland, Oregon, and holds a doctorate in literature from the University of Oregon. She is also a dedicated swimmer.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

her other mouths

her other mouths

Short story collection

Liberty's Excess

Liberty's Excess

Short story collection

Real to Reel

Real to Reel

Short story collection

Dora: A Headcase

The Small Backs of Children

The Book of Joan

Verge

Verge

Short story collection

Thrust

Thrust


The Big M

Standalone Non-fiction

The Chronology of Water

The Misfit's Manifesto

Reading the Waves

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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