Lidia Yuknavitch ist eine Bestseller-Autorin und preisgekrönte Schriftstellerin, die für ihre einzigartige Stimme und Perspektive in der Science-Fiction und anderen Genres bekannt ist. Sie hat mehrere Romane verfasst, darunter „The Small Backs of Joan“, das den Ken Kesey Award bei den Oregon Book Awards im Jahr 2016 gewann, und „The Book of Joan“. Ihr Debütroman, „Dora: A Headcase“, war ebenfalls ein Erfolg.
Zusätzlich zu ihrer Fiktion hat Yuknavitch einen weit gerühmten Memoir geschrieben, „The Chronology of Water“, der Finalist für einen PEN Center USA Award für kreative Non-Fiction und Gewinner des PNBA Awards und des Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice war.
Yuknavitch ist auch die Gründerin der beliebten Werkstatt Corporeal Writing, in der sie online und vor Ort unterrichtet. Sie promovierte in Literatur an der University of Oregon und lebt derzeit in Oregon mit ihrem Ehemann Andy Mingo und ihrem Sohn, Miles. Neben ihrem Schreiben und Unterrichten ist Yuknavitch für ihren beliebten TED Talk, „The Beauty of Being a Misfit“, bekannt, der von RED Books adaptiert wurde. Ihr Sachbuch, „The Misfit's Manifesto“, erscheint bei TED Books.
Die Schriften von Yuknavitch wurden in einer Reihe von Publikationen vorgestellt, darunter TANK, Guernica Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Ms., The Sun, The Iowa Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Zyzzyva, und in den Anthologien Representing Bisexualities, Life As We Show It, Feminaissance, Forms at War und Wreckage of Reason. Sie ist außerdem eine sehr gute Schwimmerin.
Einzelromane
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Titel
Jahr
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Dora
2012
2
The Small Backs of Children
2015
3
The Book of Joan
2017
4
Thrust
2022
Sachbücher
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Titel
Jahr
Goodreads
Amazon
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The Misfit's Manifesto
2017
2
Allegories of Violence
2001
3
The Chronology of Water
2019
4
Letter to My Rage: An Evolution
2020
5
Reading the Waves: A Memoir
2025
Sammlungen
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Titel
Jahr
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Her Other Mouths
1997
2
Liberty's Excess
2000
3
Real to Reel
2003
4
Verge
2020
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Books
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Titel
Jahr
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1
Making Homes in the West/Indies (By: Antonia MacDonald-Smythe)
2001
2
Allegories of Violence
2001
3
Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor (By: Patsy J. Daniels)
2001
4
Out of Touch (By: Maureen F Curtin)
2002
5
The Figure of Consciousness (By: Jill M. Kress)
2002
6
Making of the Victorian Novelist (By: Bradley Deane)
2002
7
Eugenic Fantasies (By: Betsy Lee Nies)
2002
8
The Space and Place of Modernism (By: Adam McKible)
2002
9
The Self Wired (By: Lisa Yaszek)
2002
10
The Merchant of Modernism (By: Gary Levine)
2002
11
Intimate and Authentic Economies (By: Tom Nissley)
2003
12
Balancing the Books (By: Erik Dussere)
2003
13
Figures of Finance Capitalism (By: Borislav Knežević)
2003
14
Beyond the Sound Barrier (By: Kristin K. Henson)
2003
15
Satire and the Postcolonial Novel (By: John Clement Ball)
2003
16
The Other Orpheus (By: Merrill Cole)
2003
17
Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s (By: Tatiana Teslenko)
2003
18
Love American Style (By: Kimberly A. Freeman)
2003
19
Dead Letters to the New World (By: Michael McLoughlin)
2003
20
The Other Empire (By: Filiz Swenson)
2003
21
The Dangerous Potential of Reading (By: Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau)
2003
22
Revised Lives (By: William Pannapacker)
2003
23
Through the Negative (By: Megan Williams)
2003
24
Labor Pains (By: Carolyn R. Maibor)
2003
25
Fictional Feminism (By: Kim A. Loudermilk)
2003
26
Reading the Text That Isn't There (By: Mike Lee Davis)
2004
27
The Architecture of Address (By: Jake Adam York)
2004
28
Ethical Diversions (By: Katalin Orbán)
2004
29
The Real Negro (By: Shelly Eversley)
2004
30
Narrative in the Professional Age (By: Jennifer Cognard-Black)
2004
31
Misery's Mathematics (By: Peter Balaam)
2004
32
Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston (By: Thomas McGlamery)
2004
33
Writing the City (By: Desmond Harding)
2004
34
The Colonizer Abroad ( By: Christopher McBride)
2004
35
The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America (By: Sandra Baringer)
2004
36
Racial Blasphemies (By: Michael L. Cobb)
2004
37
Postmodern Counternarratives (By: Christopher Donovan)
2004
38
Surviving the Crossing (By: Jessica Rabin)
2004
39
Authoring the Self (By: Scott Hess)
2004
40
The Slave in the Swamp (By: William Tynes Cowa)
2004
41
The End of the Mind (By: DeSales Harrison)
2004
42
The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel (By: Stephen Hancock)
2005
43
Poetry and Repetition (By: Krystyna Mazur)
2005
44
The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism (By: Nyla Ali Khan)
2005
45
Twentieth-Century Americanism (By: Andrew Yerkes)
2005
46
The Ethics of Exile (By: Timothy Strode)
2005
47
Gendered Pathologies (By: Sondra M. Archimedes)
2005
48
Outsider Citizens (By: Sarah Relyea)
2005
49
Cosmopolitan Fictions (By: Katherine Stanton)
2005
50
Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations (By: Tim S. Gauthier)
2005
51
The Fatal News (By: Katherine E. Ellison)
2005
52
Foreign Bodies (By: Laura Di Prete)
2005
53
The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction (By: Sharon DeGraw)
2006
54
Overheard Voices (By: Ann Keniston)
2006
55
Unsettled Narratives (By: David Farrier)
2006
56
Between the Angle and the Curve (By: Danielle Russell)
2006
57
Strange Cases (By: Jason Tougaw)
2006
58
The Spell Cast by Remains (By: Patricia Ross)
2006
59
Contested Masculinities (By: Nalin Jayasena)
2006
60
Museum Mediations (By: Barbara K. Fisher)
2006
61
Here and Now (By: Youngjoo Son)
2006
62
Different Dispatches (By: David T. Humphries)
2006
63
Like Parchment in the Fire (By: Prasanta Chakravarty)
2006
64
Revisiting Vietnam (By: Julia Bleakney)
2006
65
Equity in English Renaissance Literature (By: Andrew Majeske)
2006
66
You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand (By: Wes Mantooth)
2006
67
Idioms of Self Interest (By: Jill Phillips Ingram)
2006
68
Keeping up Her Geography (By: Tanya Ann Kennedy)
2006
69
Rhizosphere (By: Mary F. Zamberlin)
2006
70
Parsing the City (By: Heather Easterling)
2006
71
The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s (By: Winnie Chan)
2007
72
Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland (By: Robin Bates)
2007
73
Machine and Metaphor (By: Jennifer Carol Cook)
2007
74
Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature (By: Laurel Plapp)
2007
75
Negotiating the Modern (By: Amit Ray)
2007
76
Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America (By: Benzi Zhang)
2007
77
Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel (By: Adrian Wisnicki)
2007
78
The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance (By: Mary Hricko)
2007
79
Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner (By: Randy Boyagoda)
2007
80
William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (By: Andrea Elizabeth Donovan)
2007
81
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit (By: Caroline J. Smith)
2007
82
Spaces of the Sacred and Profane (By: Elizabeth A. Bridgham)
2007
83
Literature and Development in North Africa (By: Perri Giovannucci)
2008
84
Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East (By: Cara Murray)
2008
85
The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama (By: Kristen Deiter)
2008
86
The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel (By: Stephen M. Levin)
2008
87
Ruined by Design (By: Inger Sigrun Brodey)
2008
88
Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture (By: Marisa Parham)
2008
89
The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama (By: George Cusack)
2009
90
Modern American Counter Writing (By: A. Robert Lee)
2009
91
Narrative Mutations (By: Rudyard J. Alcocer)
2011
92
Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry (By: John Wrighton)
2012
93
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America (By: Kim Becnel)
2012
94
Modernism and the Marketplace (By: Alissa G. Karl)
2012
95
The Life Writing of Otherness (By: Lauren Rusk)
2012
96
Visionary Dreariness (By: Markus Poetzsch)
2013
97
Regenerating the Novel (By: James J. Miracky)
2013
98
The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory from Conrad to Greene (By: Julia Rawa)
2013
99
Vital Contact (By: Patrick Chura)
2013
100
Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern (By: William Slocombe)
2013
101
City/Stage/Globe (By: D.J. Hopkins)
2013
102
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature (By: Monica Latham, Caroline Marie, Anne-Laure Rigeade)
2021
103
Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics (By: Wenjin Cui)
2021
104
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature (By: Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Ana I. Simón-Alegre)
2021
105
Telling Details (By: Jiwei Xiao)
2022
106
Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature (By: Suzanne LaLonde)
2022
107
Erich Auerbach and the Secular World (By: Jon Nixon)