Rosa Lyster

Rosa Lyster is a writer living in Cape Town, working on a book about the global water crisis to be published by Penguin Random House (U.S.) and Jonathan Cape (U.K.) in 2022. Her work has appeared in The New YorkerThe New York Times MagazineThe Washington Post, the London Review of BooksThe Paris Review, and The Guardian.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2021*

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