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NW Voices Fall 2025 Presents, Author Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch is a highly acclaimed, nationally bestselling author of memoir, fiction, and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the memoir Reading the Waves (Riverhead, 2025), praised by Booklist as “emotional and darkly hilarious,” and as “electrifying” by Suleika Jaouad. Her other books include the novel Thrust (Riverhead, 2022), named a best book of the year by The Washington Post; Verge: Stories (Riverhead, 2020), a finalist for the Story Prize; The Misfit’s Manifesto (TED Books, 2017), based on her widely viewed TED Talk; The Book of Joan (Harper, 2017), a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice; The Small Backs of Children (Harper, 2015), winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Awards Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and the OBA Reader’s Choice Award; Dora: A Head Case (Hawthorne Books, 2012); the groundbreaking memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books, 2011), a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice; and a critical book on war and narrative, Allegories Of Violence (Routledge, 2001).
Her writing has appeared in many publications, including Guernica Magazine, Ms., The Iowa Review, Zyzzyva, Another Chicago Magazine, The Sun, Exquisite Corpse, and TANK, and in the anthologies Life As We Show It (City Lights), Wreckage of Reason (Spuyten Duyvil), Forms at War (FC2), Feminaissance (Les Figues Press), and Representing Bisexualities (SUNY), as well as online at The Rumpus.
Yuknavitch founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches both in person and online. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. She is a very good swimmer.
Workshop: October 23rd at 3:00PM-4:30PM in the Rose Center for the Arts Room 201
Reading: October 23rd at 5:30PM in the Longview Public Library
About Northwest Voices
Colleges, libraries and writers are natural community partners. Both seek to reach out to readers, stimulate thinking and engage people in the pursuit of ideas.
Northwest Voices author events are held quarterly during the academic year (Fall, Winter, Spring). Attendance is open to the public. There is no charge to attend.
Northwest Voices Funding
Northwest Voices is funded by Lower Columbia College Foundation, Longview Public Library, Friends of the Longview Public Library, Longview Library Foundation, Washington State Arts Commission, and Humanities Washington.
Northwest Voices News Stories
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The Daily News | September 5, 2018