Photo by Jolene Siana

Photo by Jolene Siana

Deirdre Coyle’s fiction and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Lit Hub, The New Republic, The Texas Observer, Hobart Pulp, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Kerouac Project, and the Antioch Writers’ Workshop. Her column, “This Mortal Coyle,” appears monthly in Unwinnable, and she works as a Digital Producer at Publishers Weekly. Originally published by Electric Literature, her essay, “Men Recommend David Foster Wallace to Me,” was named one of the Best Stories by Women in 2017 by Bustle and translated into Italian for Corriere della Sera.

Find her online @DeirdreKoala.