• On the Sound

    Lydia Conklin

    Winter 2023

    This story is only available in the print edition of the Sewanee Review.

    Lydia Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright, and a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation. Their fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, One Story, and Virginia Quarterly Review. They are an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Vanderbilt University. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was published by Catapult.

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