Lydia Peelle

Lydia Peelle is an American short story writer.

Life

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Before her writing career, Peelle worked as a speechwriter for the Governor of Tennessee. She received a creative writing MFA from the University of Virginia. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Orion, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.^[1]

Awards

2006 O. Henry Award for "Mule Killers"
2010 Whiting Award

Works

Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing. Harper Perennial. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06172-473-2.
- "Phantom Pain," Originally published in Granta 102: The New Nature Writing, Summer 2008^[2]
- "Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing," Originally published in One Story, Issue 87, January 2007^[3]

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