Linda Lenhoff

Linda Lenhoff lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes for a variety

of publications when she’s not completely covered by cats. *Your Actual

Life May Vary is her fourth novel and was a finalist for the 2019 SFWP

Publication prize, the Galileo Prize from Free State Review, and the Orison

Prize. The first chapter, “Your Actual Life May Vary,” was published in This

Side of the Divide by Baobab Press in 2019 and also appeared in The

Tishman Review and Embark. Linda’s story “Joie to the World” recently won

second place in Lilith Magazine’s fiction contest and was published in the

Fall 2023 issue. Her earlier novels include The Girl in the ’67 Beetle, Latte

Lessons, and Life a la Mode, which was translated into four languages.

She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from SDSU but is a UCLA Bruin

through and through.