Grace Place Stage (2nd floor)
Saturday, Sept. 7th at 10am

Lynn Schmeidler is an award-winning writer of fiction and poetry. Half-Lives, her new collection of short stories, won the 2023 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Fiction. Her story, InventEd was chosen by Jonathan Lethem as the winner of BOMB Magazine’s 2023 Fiction Contest. Schmeidler’s stories have appeared in BOMB Magazine, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, KROnline, The Southern Review and more and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and listed under Distinguished Stories in Best American Short Stories. She is also the author of three poetry books: History of Gone, Wrack Lines, and the award-winning Curiouser & Curiouser.