Lyn Di Iorio

Lyn Di Iorio is working on a suspense novel, The Sound of Falling Darkness, which was shortlisted for the 2015 Faulkner-Wisdom Novel-in-Progress award. Her short novel Outside the Bones (Arte Público Press) won the 2011 Foreword Review Indie Book of the Year Silver Award, was best debut novel on the Latinidad list, a top-five finalist for the 2012 John Gardner Fiction Award, a finalist for the International Latino Book Award, and on Book Riot’s 2016 list of the top 100 works of noir.  Her recent short stories have appeared in Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas and New Guard.  She has won residencies and fellowships from The Millay Colony for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Vermont Studio Center and Ucross, and was a Patricia Harris Fellow at Stanford University’s Creative Writing Program.

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