Lydia Millet is an American novelist and conservationist. Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize as well as a Guggenheim fellow, among other honors. Lydia has written books and stories that range from the philosophical to the satirical, on matters including the inventors of the atom bomb, political culture under George H.W. Bush, the discovery of mermaids in a coral reef and the crises of extinction and
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climate change. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona with her two children and works for the Center for Biological Diversity. Lydia's latest novel is Sweet Lamb of Heaven. Info at LydiaMillet.net