Lindsey Drager is the author of four books of literary-speculative fiction: The Sorrow Proper, 2015; The Lost Daughter Collective, 2017; The Archive of Alternate Endings, 2019; and The Avian Hourglass, 2024. These books have won a Shirley Jackson Award, been finalists for two Lambda Literary Awards, made the longlist for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and have variously been translated into Spanish and Italian. A 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient in Prose, winner of the 2022 Bard Fiction Prize, and recipient of a 2025 O. Henry Prize and 2025 Pushcart Prize, she currently teaches in the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Utah. In 2025, she was named a finalist for the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, which recognizes "novelists and storytellers whose published works defy literary conventions and experiment with form." In addition to writing strange fiction, she is a collector of vintage cameras, a person who collages, someone who runs, and a (very) amateur gardener.