Dayna Bateman
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Chicagoland IL
I think about things.
2026 PEN/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History
2025 Bridport Memoir Prize Runner Up Winner
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
2023 Storyknife Writer in Residence
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Think About Things / Daði Freyr
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