Biography
Lindsey Drager is the author of the novels The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), and The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc, 2019). Her books have been listed as a “Best Book of the Year” in The Guardian and NPR; twice been named finalists for Lambda Literary Awards; and have been translated into Spanish and Italian. Her short stories have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Iowa Review, Southern Review, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Recipient of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Award, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose, and the 2022 Bard Fiction Prize, she is the fiction editor of the literary journal West Branch. A new novel, The Avian Hourglass, is forthcoming from Dzanc in 2024.