Rachel Lyon

Rachel Lyon is the author of Self-Portrait with Boy, which was a finalist for the US Center for Fiction's 2018 First Novel Prize, and Fruit of the Dead, named a most anticipated book of 2024 by outlets including Elle, Oprah Daily, and People magazine. Rachel’s short work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in The Bennington Review, LitHub, One Story, and The Rumpus. She is a teacher of creative writing for institutions and cofounder of the Dream Away Reading Series as well as Ditmas Lit reading series.

This Paris Writer’s Residency is jointly sponsored by The American University of Paris (AUP), the Centre Culturel Irlandais, and the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture (PSAC).