Lydi Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship in fiction, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, two Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fellowship from Emory University, work-study and tuition scholarships from Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and other places. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere, and they have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker and Narrative Magazine, and graphic fiction for The Believer, Lenny Letter, Popula Magazine, Drunken Boat, and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.
In residence in 2021, they completed edits for a short story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, which was published in June 2022 by Catapult in the U.S. and Scribner in the UK. They also worked on revisions for a novel, Songs of No Provenance, compiling a revision plan and then beginning the first 100 pages of the revision.
