Donald Lystra

Donald Lystra is an engineer and writer whose work has been praised for the strong emotions captured in its quiet understated prose. His debut novel, Season of Water and Ice, was selected for a gold medal in the Midwest Book Awards competition and named a Michigan Notable Book by the Library of Michigan. His second book, a short story collection entitled Something That Feels Like Truth, was also selected for a gold medal in the Midwest Book Awards and named a Michigan Notable Book.

Lystra has received creative writing fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, where he was honored with the Gerald Freund award for emerging writers. He and his wife divide their time between a farm in northern Michigan and a small town on the Atlantic coast of Florida. He has two adult children.