Lydia Kiesling

Lydia Kiesling is the author of The Golden State, a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing editor at The Millions and Zyzzyva and her writing appears in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker online, The Cut, and elsewhere. (Photo credit: Andria Lo)