Lyn Di Iorio

Lyn Sandín Di Iorio is a fiction writer and scholar. In her fiction, she often deploys magical realist moments and gothic horror tropes to explore identity, grief, and historical trauma. She is currently working on Hurricanes and Other Stories, a short story collection about Puerto Rican islanders dealing with the fallout of a long financial crisis and back-to-back natural disasters. She is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts; a 2021-22 CCNY Rifkind Center Faculty Fellow; and a 2018-19 Advanced Research Collaborative CUNY Distinguished Fellow. Her most recent short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review Online; Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas; and Big Other. Her story "By the River Cibuco" (KRO, 2020) was listed as a "distinguished story of 2020" in Best American Short Stories 2021. Her novel Outside the Bones (Arte Público Press) was a top-five finalist for the 2012 John Gardner Fiction Prize and won a Foreword Reviews Silver Award. Her book of literary criticism, Killing Spanish (Palgrave Macmillan), focuses on Latinx literature and identity. She also co-edited Moments of Magical Realism in U.S. Ethnic Literatures and Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism (both with Palgrave Macmillan). Di Iorio graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University; was a Patricia Harris Fellow at Stanford University's Creative Writing Program; and received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches creative writing and the literatures of the Americas at the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.