Lindsey Markel

Lindsey Markel

born July 01, 1983
gender female
website http://www.youareamongfriends.com
genre Short Stories, Nonfiction
influences [a:Alice Munro|6410|Alice Munro|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1245100102p2/6410.jpg], [a:Raymond Carver|7363|Raymond Carver|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201118985p2/7363.jpg], [a:Hunter S. Thompson|5237|Hunter S. Thompson|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206560814p2/5237.jpg], [a:Joan Didion|238|Joan Didion|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1316388833p2/238.jpg], [a:Stephen Dunn|10532|Stephen Dunn|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1275503393p2/10532.jpg], [a:Anne Lamott|7113|Anne Lamott|htt

about this author

Lindsey Gates Markel lives in Urbana, IL. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, where her thesis featured recurring themes of cats and nipples (but not cat nipples). She is the author of You Are Among Friends, a book of advice for young gals, and her short fiction has previously appeared in Necessary Fiction and Storychord and is forthcoming in Bluestem. She never knows exactly what to do with the space at youareamongfriends.com.

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