Lindsey Drager is the author of the novels The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), The Lost Daughter Collective (Dzanc, 2017), The Archive of Alternate Endings (Dzanc, 2019), and The Avian Hourglass (Dzanc, 2024). 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. Recent short fiction can be found in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. Recipient of a 2017 Shirley Jackson Award, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose, the 2022 Bard Fiction Prize, and a 2025 Pushcart Prize, she is currently the fiction editor of West Branch literary journal.

At the University of Utah, she is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Program, an affiliate faculty member in the Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, and a volunteer with the University of Utah's Prison Education Project. She was the recipient of the 2024 Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.

Personal website: https://www.lindseydrager.com/ | Email: lindsey.drager@utah.edu