Lynn Schmeidler

Lynn Schmeidler is a fiction writer and poet. She is the author of the story collection Half-Lives (winner of the Rising Writers Prize for Fiction, Autumn House Press), the poetry collection, History of Gone (Veliz Books, shortlisted for the Sexton Prize and finalist for the Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize), and two poetry chapbooks, Wrack Lines (Grayson Books, Finalist for the Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize and the Comstock Review Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Prize) and Curiouser & Curiouser (Winner of the Grayson Books Chapbook Prize). Schmeidler’s writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Georgia Review, KR Online, The Southern Review, and other literary magazines. Her stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received a notable citation 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 earned a BA from Yale University and an MEd from Lesley College. She teaches writing online and lives with her husband in the Hudson Valley.

Lynn Schmeidler's Autumn House Books