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Lidia Yuknavitch: I Will Always Inhabit the Water
Two swimmers wrestled on the spar– Until the morning sun– When One–turned smiling to the land– Oh God! the Other One! The stray ships–passing– Spied a face– Upon the waters borne– With eyes in...
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Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class
My home life in my teens was claustrophobic, abusive, a horror. Simultaneously, I was not fitting into any group or clique at school. My only safety was aloneness. So it felt like there was nowhere to...
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I Was Already Leaving Florida When I Arrived
One The largemouth bass is an olive-green fish. In the North East right after ice-out, it most often has a gray color, marked by a series of dark, sometimes black, blotches forming a jagged horizontal...
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Lidia Yuknavitch Describes Her Four Perfect Writing Spaces
MY WRITING SPACE IS WATER The sea is the only place on the planet where I feel seen. I barely know what I mean by that sentence, and yet the sentence feels so true it makes my bones ring. When I stand...
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What If? Lidia Yuknavitch on Her Philosophy of Teaching
Change is afoot. We can see it in the climate roaring back at us, the plants and animals moving from background to foreground during the beginning of Covid. Institutions are fracturing, old systems are...
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