{"id":2,"count":4,"description":"Lydi Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers\u2019 Award, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Emory, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, the James Merrill House, Lighthouse Works, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, McSweeney\u2019s, American Short Fiction,<\/em> and VQR<\/em>. They have drawn cartoons for The New Yorker<\/em> and Narrative Magazine<\/em>, and graphic fiction for The Believer, Lenny Letter,<\/em> and the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. They\u2019ve served as the Helen Zell Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan and are now an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow<\/em>, was longlisted for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance<\/em>, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/section\/fall2025\/lydiconklin\/","name":"Lydi Conklin","slug":"lydiconklin","taxonomy":"section","parent":3,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/section"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/3"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item?section=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}