Lynn Schmeidler

Poet, Fiction Writer

Hudson Valley, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Lynn Schmeidler is an award-winning writer of fiction and poetry. Half-Lives (March 2024), her collection of short stories, was selected by Matt Bell as the winner of the 2023 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Fiction. Her story, “InventEd” was chosen by Jonathan Lethem as the winner of BOMB’s 2023 Fiction Contest. Schmeidler’s stories have appeared in BOMB, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, KROnline, The Southern Review and other literary magazines. She is also the author of three poetry books: History of Gone (Veliz Books), Wrack Lines (Grayson Books) and the award-winning Curiouser & Curiouser (Grayson Books). Schmeidler’s writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has been listed under Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories. She is the recipient of a Sewanee Writers Conference Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction and has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She has led writing workshops both privately and at such venues as the Hudson Valley Writers Center, The Writers Studio in Greenwich Village, libraries, and schools. She lives with her husband in the Hudson Valley.

Publications & Prizes

Poetry

Book:
History of Gone (Veliz Books, 2018)
Prizes won: 

Winner of BOMB magazine 2023 Fiction prize

Winner of Autumn House Rising Writer Prize 2023

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
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Last update: Jan 31, 2024