#  Lindsay O’Connor Stern 

 

 



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 Lindsay O’Connor Stern is an American novelist and received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Her current book project, *Second Nature*, rethinks the legal fiction of the “person” from the perspective of 20th century literature and philosophy. She is the author of three books including *Town of Shadows* (Scrambler Books), about a mender of rugs living in a dictatorship, which was adapted into a dance. Her novel *The Study of Animal Languages* (Viking), an Amazon Editors’ pick, won a Lois Kahn Wallace Award from the Brearley School and the Taylor-Chehak Prize in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her scholarship and shorter writing have appeared or are forthcoming in *Law and Critique,* DIAGRAM, and *Smithsonian Magazine.* She holds an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has received an Amy Award, a Watson Fellowship, and an Academy of American Poets Prize.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2023 - 2024](/fellowship-year/2023-2024)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)