Lydia Peelle

Lydia Peelle is an American fiction writer. In 2009 the National Book Foundation named her a "5 under 35" Honoree.

Life
Peelle was born in Boston, Massachusetts and was named for her great-great-aunt, abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. 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. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Orion, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. Peelle lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Awards
The short story “Mule Killers” was published in The O’Henry Prize Stories 2006 as judged by Kevin Brockmeier, Francine Prose, and Colm Tóibín, and edited by Laura Furman.
 * 2009 National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree for fiction
 * 2010 Whiting Award for Fiction
 * 2010 PEN/Hemingway Award runner-up
 * 2012 Anahid Literary Prize for emerging Armenian-American writers

Works

 * The Midnight Cool. Harper Perennial. 2017. ISBN 978-0-06247-546-6.
 * "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
 * "Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing," Originally published in One Story, Issue 87, January 2007