Lynn Steger Strong

Instructor & Writer
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Lynn Steger Strong's first novel, Hold Still, was released by Liveright/WW Norton in March 2016. She received an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

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Stories

Cover Photo: How She Did It: On Penelope Fitzgerald, Writing, and Women at Work by Lynn Steger Strong
How She Did It: On Penelope Fitzgerald, Writing, and Women at Work

Fitzgerald was ground down, I imagine, consumed by how to take care of her family. This didn’t make her any less the thinker, writer, reader, that she was.

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Lynn Steger Strong
Apr 09, 2018
Things | Rekindle
Cover Photo: Edward Peters "Paparazzi" via Flickr
Capture This: How We Live Away From the Lens

I was embarrassed each time I got out my camera.

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Lynn Steger Strong
Mar 19, 2018
Things | Exhibit
Cover Photo: Tallulah Pomeroy
Why I Wanted to Write About Anger

I want to write about space and time, and feeling like somehow we’ve always had less of it than our male counterparts.

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Lynn Steger Strong
Jan 05, 2018
How To | Genre Studies
Cover Photo: photo by galwonder/flickr
The Story I Can’t Write About My Family

In fiction, one needs motivations, wants, and fears; one needs cause and effect. In life, it’s messier.

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Lynn Steger Strong
Sep 14, 2017
How To | Figures
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Reader-Based

On Virginia Woolf, making hats, escapism, and how to write a novel that readers will read.

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Lynn Steger Strong
Apr 14, 2016
How To | Notes From Class