After the success of her second novel “The Small Backs of Children,” she established herself as the literary voice that dives deep into the themes of transcendence, gender, violence sexuality and art across genres. Lidia then followed that up with “Dora: The Headcase” her debut fiction novel that went on to become a bestselling title. She wrote her memoir “The Chronology of Water” in 2011 that told a patchwork tale of womanhood, love and loss and willpower.
It sucked the air out of her body and she asserted that she had to learn how to breathe again. However, it was the death of her daughter immediately after she was born that was the turning point. After two failed marriages and two brief stints in jail, she turned a leaf and decided to do something with her life. Lidia got into writing when she attended the University of Oregon and became the editor of a school magazine while studying for her doctorate. She still got a swimming scholarship and went to Austin Community College but her swimming career ended up dead in the water when her alcohol and drug abuse combined with the US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics to kill her dreams.
But she started drinking heavily soon after the family moved to Florida and the dream very nearly died. As a teen, Yuknavitch got into swimming and started practicing for the Olympics with a coach. Lidia was born in a family where her father physically, verbally and sexually abused her and her sister while their alcoholic mother was too drunk to do anything.
in Literature from the University of Oregon and currently lives with Andy Mingo her husband and Miles her son in Oregon. She is also the founder of the popular workshop Corporeal Writing and is a teacher at both it’s online and live training. Her writing has also been featured in TANK, Guernica Magazine Exquisite Corpse, Ms., The Sun, The Iowa Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Zyzzyva, and in the anthologies such as Representing Bisexualities, Life As We Show It, Feminaissance, Forms at War and Wreckage of Reason as well as at The Rumpus online magazine. In 2016, she gave a popular talk on “The Beauty of Being a Misfit,” which would subsequently be adapted into a book by RED Books. She is the author of “The Small Backs of Joan” that won the Ken Kesey Award at the Oregon Book Awards in 2016 and “The Book of Joan.” Her debut novel “Dora: A Headcase” was a huge success while her memoir “The Chronology of Water” won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Oregon Book Awards in addition to the PNBA Award for creative nonfiction by PEN Center USA. Lidia Yuknavitch is a bestselling and award-winning science-fiction novelist from Oregon.
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