Lynn Sloan is a writer and photographer. Her second novel, Midstream, called “luminous” by Foreword Reviews, appeared in 2022, and her first novel, Principles of Navigation, was chosen for Chicago Book Review’s Best Books of 2015. She is the author of the story collection This Far Isn’t Far EnoughAn art book featuring her flash fiction, titled Fortune Cookies, was produced by Lark Sparrow Press in 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in PloughsharesShenandoahAmerican Literary Fiction, and included in NPR’s Selected Shorts. She graduated from Northwestern University, earned a master’s degree in photography at The Institute of Design, formerly the New Bauhaus, and exhibited her work nationally and internationally. For many years she taught photography in the MFA program of Columbia College Chicago, where she founded Occasional Readings in Photography and contributed to AfterimageArt Week, and Exposure before turning to fiction writing.