Lindsey Drager

Lindsey Drager is the author of the novel The Sorrow Proper (Dzanc, 2015), winner of the 2016 Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Prize and recipient of Silver in the 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in Literary Fiction. She has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and received fully funded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She has also served on the masthead of journals such as the Review of Contemporary FictionNinth LetterLos Angeles ReviewGreen Mountains Review, and, most recently, Denver Quarterly. A new novel, The Lost Daughter Collective, is forthcoming from Dzanc in 2017.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2016*

Best American Short Stories 2019*

Pushcart (Fiction) 2019*

* indicates notable/special mention

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