Lydia Conklin

Biography

Lydia Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and fellowships from Emory, MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction, and the Paris Review. Their first story collection, Rainbow Rainbow (Catapult, 2022), is forthcoming.

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FICTION / Winter 2021

Sun Prairie Events

By Lydia Conklin ,  Illustration by Harriet Lee-Merrion

No light could work its way into Kelsey’s condo after four, so that’s when she held the baby and checked email. She never received much.

Illustrated by Harriet Lee-Merrion