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Lydia Conklin

Lydia Conklin, a writer and cartoonist, is the Helen Zell visiting professor in fiction at the University of Michigan and recipient of a Stegner Fellowship. Their story collection Rainbow, Rainbow will be published in June 2022 by Catapult in North America and Scribner in the UK.

Goodnight Baby

September 6, 2021
Chase loved his bandmates like brothers. Riley, floppy-haired and gangly, manned the fake instruments—melodica and glockenspiel, donkey jaw and rattle—free-playing like a kid in music class. Matt, compact and forever frowning, kept a factory-correct drumbeat, the seatbelt ...