Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the debut novel Dora: A Headcase, and the memoir The Chronology of Water, both from Hawthorne Books. She has published three books of short stories and is the recipient of an Oregon Book Award 2012, a PNBA award 2012, and grants from both Poets and Writers and Literary Arts Inc. Her fiction, nonfiction, and critic fiction are widely anthologized and have appeared most recently in The Rumpus, The Sun, Ms., The Iowa Review, and Mother Jones. She teaches writing, literature, film and women’s studies in Portland Oregon and is the Editor of Chiasmus Press.