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Rachel
Lyon

Rachel Lyon’s novel Self-Portrait With Boy was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s 2018 First Novel Prize and is in feature film development at Topic Studios. Her short work has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Longreads, Joyland, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is Editor-in-Chief of Epiphany and co-founder of the reading series Ditmas Lit.

Rachel Lyon’s novel Self-Portrait With Boy was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s 2018 First Novel Prize and is in feature film development at Topic Studios. Her short work has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Longreads, Joyland, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She is Editor-in-Chief of Epiphany and co-founder of the reading series Ditmas Lit.

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