Lyn Di Iorio is an award-winning fiction writer and a professor at the City College of New York and City University of New York Graduate Center.

Her novel Outside the Bones was shortlisted for the 2012 John Gardner Fiction Award and won a Foreword INDIES Silver Fiction Prize. Her short stories have been published or will appear in Best American Short Stories 2025; The Georgia Review; The Kenyon Review; Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas; Big Other: Puerto Rican Writers Folio; and other venues. One of her stories was also named a “distinguished story” in Best American Short Stories 2021. Additionally, she has written scholarship, notably Killing Spanish, a book of essays on Latinx literature. 

Her fiction has been recognized by a 2025 Faulkner Society Faulkner-Wisdom gold medal; a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship; an Advanced Research Collaborative CUNY Distinguished Fellowship; and other awards.

Presently, she is finishing a literary thriller and a short story collection.

Lyn studied at Harvard, Stanford and UC-Berkeley. She and her husband live in Manhattan where besides their full-time gigs they serve as caretakers of a cat named Garbanzo Jack, second of his line, also known as “Garbanzo the Great.”