Dylan Landis is the author of three works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle set in 1970s Greenwich Village- the forthcoming novel in stories List of All Possible Desires; the novel Rainey Royal, a New York Times Editors' Choice; and the novel in stories Normal People Don't Live Like This. Her work has appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and other anthologies. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.
Praise for Rainey Royal “Fierce, winning, and sharp as a blade.” —Vanity Fair “Rainey will remain in my mind forever as one of my favorite characters.” —ELLE “Wild, dangerous, sometimes certain and other times totally lost, Rainey is a fascinating, unique character.” —Los Angeles Times ""It's difficult to remember a novel that was more continually on edge than Rainey Royal, a series of fraught moments that never seem to let off any psychic steam . . . beautifully drawn."" —Chicago Tribune