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Lydi Conklin

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Lydi Conklin

Lydi Conklin is the author of RAINBOW, RAINBOW, which was longlisted for the Story Prize and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Their fiction has appeared in Tin House, American Short Fiction and The Paris Review. They’ve drawn comics for The New Yorker, The Believer, Lenny Letter and other publications. SONGS OF NO PROVENANCE is their first novel.

Lydi Conklin

Books by Lydi Conklin

by Lydi Conklin - Fiction

SONGS OF NO PROVENANCE tells the story of Joan Vole, an indie folk singer forever teetering on the edge of fame, who flees New York after committing a shocking sexual act onstage that she fears will doom her career. Joan seeks refuge at a writing camp for teenagers in rural Virginia, where she's forced to question her own toxic relationship to artmaking --- and her complicated history with a friend and mentee --- while finding new hope in her students and a deepening intimacy with a nonbinary artist and fellow camp staff member.