Dayna Bateman
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Chicagoland IL
I think about things.
2026 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for HUSTLING VINYL
2025 Bridport Memoir Prize Runner Up Winner for HUSTLING VINYL
2025 American Literary Review Essay Prize for DERACINATION, OR HOW TO DISAPPEAR
DIFFERENTIAL FORCE // Pacifica Literary Review
WHERE LIONS HAVE WINGS // Anthologized
COLLECTING HISTORIES, BUILDING A MEMOIR // Inside Writing, Granta
GONE MISSING: HOW THE BORTLE SCALE WILL BREAK YOUR HEART // DarkSkyCHI
2026 Klaustrið Artist in Residence at Skriðuklaustur
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Think About Things / Daði Freyr
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