Portrait photograph of "Asymmetry" Author Lisa Halliday in her home in Milan, Italy
Lisa Halliday
Lisa Halliday’s work has appeared in The Paris Review and she is the recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award in Fiction. She previously worked at The Wylie Agency and is a freelance editor and translator in Milan. Her first novel, Asymmetry, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2018.
Lisa Halliday’s work has appeared in The Paris Review and she is the recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award in Fiction. She previously worked at The Wylie Agency and is a freelance editor and translator in Milan. Her first novel, Asymmetry, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2018.
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