Exhibit X Fiction

Lydia Millet is the author of nine books, most recently the novel Magnificence (Fall 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award, which was the last in a trilogy about extinction and loss. Her short story collection Love in Infant Monkeys, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, was also concerned with relationships between human and nonhuman animals. Milletis a writer and editor at the Center for Biological Diversity, which works to protect endangered species and curb climate change; she lives with her children in the desert outside Tucson, AZ.