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. I am currently in the process of creating another novel and multi-media project called Freak Salvation Homilies.

Songwriting 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.

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.