Lynn Schmeidler

Lynn Schmeidler is an award-winning writer of fiction and poetry. Half-Lives was selected by Matt Bell as the winner of the 2023 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Fiction. Her story, “InventEd” was chosen by Jonathan Lethem as the winner of BOMB’s 2023 Fiction Contest. Schmeidler’s stories have appeared in BOMB, Conjunctions, Georgia Review, KROnline and The Southern Review 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 (Veliz Books), Wrack Lines (Grayson Books) and the award-winning Curiouser & Curiouser (Grayson Books).