Lydia Peelle is an American fiction writer. In 2009 the

National Book Foundation The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established, "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America". Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc.,Edwin McDowell. "Book Notes: 'The Joy Luc ...

named her a "5 under 35" Honoree.

Life

Peelle was born in

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

, 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 The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

. Her short fiction has appeared in ''

Granta ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...

,'' '' Orion'', ''

Prairie Schooner ''Prairie Schooner'' is a literary magazine published quarterly at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with the cooperation of UNL's English Department and the University of Nebraska Press. It is based in Lincoln, Nebraska and was first publish ...

'', and elsewhere. Peelle lives in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and ...

Awards

* 2006

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

for "Mule Killers" * 2009

5 under 35 honoree for fiction * 2010 Whiting Award for Fiction

Works

* ''The Midnight Cool.'' Harper Perennial. 2017. . * **"Phantom Pain," Originally published in ''Granta 102: The New Nature Writing'', Summer 2008 **"Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing," Originally published in ''One Story'', Issue 87, January 2007

References

External links

Profile at The Whiting FoundationInterview with Gillian Welch for ''BOMB''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peelle, Lydia Living people University of Virginia alumni American women short story writers American speechwriters American women non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) Writers from Boston 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American women writers