Lydia Millet is a fiction author known for her captivating and unique stories. The talented author is a PEN Center USA and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award winner for her outstanding fiction stories. Some of her works have been listed among the New York Times notable sellers.
Her anthology Love of Infant Monkeys even became a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Before taking the plunge to write full-time, Millet spent the 90s working as a sub-editor for Busty Beauties, Hustler, and S.W.A.T. magazines. Currently, Millet lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her daughter and husband.
Books in order of publication:
The Dissenters Books
| The Fires Beneath the Sea | (2011) | |
| The Shimmers in the Night | (2012) | |
| The Bodies of the Ancients | (2017) |
Trilogy Books
| How the Dead Dream | (2007) | |
| Ghost Lights | (2011) | |
| Magnificence | (2012) |
Standalone Novels
| Omnivores | (1996) | |
| George Bush, Dark Prince of Love | (2000) | |
| My Happy Life | (2002) | |
| Oh Pure and Radiant Heart | (2005) | |
| Everyone’s Pretty | (2005) | |
| Pills and Starships | (2014) | |
| Mermaids in Paradise | (2014) | |
| Sweet Lamb of Heaven | (2016) | |
| A Children’s Bible | (2020) | |
| Dinosaurs | (2022) |
Short Stories/Novellas
| Girl and Giraffe | (2014) |
Collections
| Love in Infant Monkeys | (2009) | |
| Fight No More: Stories | (2018) |
Anthologies
| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | (1998) | |
| A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers And Artists On Twenty Five Years Of ” Star Wars “ | (2002) | |
| State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America | (2008) | |
| Electric Literature no. 1 | (2009) | |
| My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me | (2010) |
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