Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the nonfiction books Reading the Waves, The Chronology of Water, The Misfit’s Manifesto, and Allegories of Violence, as well as the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, The Small Backs of Children, and Dora: A Headcase. She is a two-time Oregon Book Award recipient and has received awards and grants from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, Poets & Writers, and Literary Arts. She is the founder of Corporeal Writing in Portland, Oregon.

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