1. Lidia Yuknavitch is an American writer, teacher and editor based in Oregon.
14 Facts About Lidia Yuknavitch
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Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the memoir The Chronology of Water, and the novels The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Book of Joan.
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Lidia Yuknavitch is known for her TED talk "The Beauty of Being a Misfit", which has been viewed over 3.2 million times, and her follow-up book The Misfit's Manifesto.
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The family moved to Florida for additional training, and Yuknavitch began abusing alcohol.
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Lidia Yuknavitch relocated to Texas after high school, where she attended Austin Community College on a swimming scholarship.
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Lidia Yuknavitch had hopes of qualifying for the United States Olympic swimming team, but the boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow and her own drug and alcohol abuse ended her competitive swimming career.
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Lidia Yuknavitch moved to Eugene, Oregon, after she lost her scholarship, where she enrolled in the University of Oregon.
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Lidia Yuknavitch received her PhD in English literature from the University of Oregon.
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Lidia Yuknavitch is associated with fellow Oregon writers Chuck Palahniuk, who wrote the introduction to her novel Dora: A Headcase, Chelsea Cain, who wrote the introduction to The Chronology of Water, Monica Drake, Cheryl Strayed, and Tom Spanbauer.
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Lidia Yuknavitch introduced Spanbauer at the launch for his book I Loved You More at Powell's Books in Portland.
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Lidia Yuknavitch said she started writing the book as a kind of dare after talking to Chuck Palahniuk about memoir at the end of a meeting of their writers' group.
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The title comes from a short story Lidia Yuknavitch wrote in a writing workshop with Diana Abu-Jaber.
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Lidia Yuknavitch has had relationships with both men and women, including Kathy Acker.
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Lidia Yuknavitch teaches writing, literature, film, and women's studies and is on the MFA faculty at Eastern Oregon University.