Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet is the author of six novels, including My Happy Life, (which won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction), Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Prize), and How the Dead Dream, a Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2008. As an undergraduate at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1986 to 1990, she wrote an honors thesis in fiction — an early novel — that won her the Louis D. Rubin Jr. Prize in Creative Writing. Her story, “Walking Bird” appears in Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina's Finest Writers Marianne Gingher, ed. (UNC Press, 2009). Her first collection of short stories, Love in Infant Monkeys, will be published in October 2009 by Soft Skull Press.
