Lidia Yuknavitch è una autrice bestseller e vincitrice di premi, nota per la sua voce e la prospettiva uniche nel genere della science-fiction e in altri generi. Ha scritto diversi romanzi, tra cui "I piccoli dorsi di Joan", che ha vinto il Ken Kesey Award agli Oregon Book Awards nel 2016, e "Il libro di Joan". Il suo romanzo d'esordio, "Dora: A Headcase", ha ottenuto un grande successo. Oltre alla sua fiction, Yuknavitch ha scritto una memoir pluripremiata, "The Chronology of Water", che è stata finalista per il PEN Center USA award per la creative nonfiction e ha vinto il PNBA Award e l'Oregon Book Award Reader's Choice.
Yuknavitch è anche la fondatrice del popolare workshop Corporeal Writing, dove insegna sia online che in presenza. Ha conseguito il dottorato in Letteratura all'Università dell'Oregon e attualmente vive in Oregon con suo marito Andy Mingo e il loro figlio, Miles. Oltre alla sua scrittura e all'insegnamento, Yuknavitch è nota per la sua popolare TED Talk, "The Beauty of Being a Misfit", adattata in un libro da RED Books. Il suo libro di saggistica, "The Misfit's Manifesto", è in uscita per TED Books.
La scrittura di Yuknavitch è apparsa in una varietà di pubblicazioni, tra cui TANK, Guernica Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Ms., The Sun, The Iowa Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Zyzzyva, e nelle antologie Representing Bisexualities, Life As We Show It, Feminaissance, Forms at War e Wreckage of Reason. È anche una nuotatrice molto brava.
Romanzi singoli
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Dora
2012
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The Small Backs of Children
2015
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The Book of Joan
2017
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Thrust
2022
Libri di non-fiction
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The Misfit's Manifesto
2017
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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
Collezioni
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Her Other Mouths
1997
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Liberty's Excess
2000
3
Real to Reel
2003
4
Verge
2020
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Books
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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)