JP Solheim

JP Solheim is a fiction writer, teacher, and literary critic. The author of The Performance of Listening in Postcolonial Francophone Culture (Liverpool University Press, 2018), their fiction and essays have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, MQR: Mixtape, Midwest Weird Audio Literary Magazine, The Pinch, Poets & Writers, and The Southampton Review. They hold a PhD in French from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Writing and Literature (fiction) from the Bennington Writing Seminars. They serve as the Associate Director of the BookEnds novel revision fellowship at Stony Brook University.

THE LYRES (Fiction)

Sprung from the hypermasculine 1990s Chicago DIY music scene, haunted chanteuse Quinn Carver makes her own rules in love and music in the chart-topping goth punk band The Lyres. That is, until an obsessive fan group develops a surveillance system to track her, posting her every move from concerts to home and twisting the band’s sense of autonomy and safety to the breaking point. Quinn quits the band and disappears into hiding. But when they find her again, years later, she realizes hiding won’t save her. Instead, she must reclaim her voice to protect her former bandmates, her young daughter, and herself.

Agent: Zeynep Sen
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