
Lidia Yuknavitch
Bestselling author and artist whose work blends memoir and experimental literature to explore memory, embodiment, grief, and transformation; author of The Chronology of Water, Reading the Waves, and editor of The Big M.
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Mar 28, 2026 • 54min
#187: Lidia Yuknavitch — The Art of Memoir & Writing from the Body, Plus Breaking Narrative Form and Finding Core Metaphors
Lidia Yuknavitch, novelist and founder of Corporeal Writing, explores writing from the body and the natural world. She discusses finding your elemental access path like water or forest. Short, practical rituals such as body-based meditations and a three-ages memory revisit become portals for shaping form. She also talks about nonlinearity, sensory-rich story shapes, and building generative writing communities.

Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 21min
Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch, bestselling author and artist known for blending memoir and experimental fiction. She talks about water and memory shaping identity. She explores narrative transmography, swimming as survival and art, the film adaptation of The Chronology of Water, and reclaiming menopause as creative power.


