My name is Lyra McMahon (she/her or ze/hir), and I’m a multi-media artist and novelist based in Seattle.

I approach my artistic practice as an ongoing process of healing and political resistance as a disabled, mad, and transfeminine person. I work to use my art to make an impact in the world by redistributing a portion of proceeds from my projects through the Lyra McMahon Social Justice & Political Solidarity Fund.

My first book is called Tree Bats on a Waterslide. It is a darkly comic novel about a 25-year-old woman who finds herself obligated to attend her mom’s gay wedding on a cruise ship and face the hometown memories she is running away from. The story is a crip reenvisioning of the myth of Polyphemus the Cyclops, and it is ultimately a book about memory. I am currently in the process of receiving feedback on it from beta readers and beginning the querying process.

I am also working on a long-term speculative fiction project called Light-Roasted Spider Fems. The book is a reimagining and expansion of a novella I first shared in 2014. I am sharing a sneak-peak of one chapter per month over on Patreon, along with reflections on the project and how it has evolved over time.

Sound art and visual art are important parts of my creative process, and a lot of my art combines multiple media. Lyra McMahon (she/her) is a chosen name for my artistic practice, rooted in my maternal Irish Catholic and Celtic heritage.

I work as a public health writer and data analyst under my name, Dielle Lundberg, and have written about my background and positionality elsewhere. While I often draw from my lived experience in my art, I strive to ask questions about the human condition that are relatable to people everywhere.