Lyz Lenz is an author, writer, and editor. Born in 1982, she is a previous columnist at The Cedar Rapids Gazette and previously served as managing editor of The Rumpus. Lenz's writing has been published by various publications including the Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, and The Gazette. Lenz's first book, titled God Land explores her personal experiences and the role of religion and politics in rural America during the Trump era. Her second book, Belabored focuses on the rights and autonomy that pregnant women ought to be afforded, the ways in which religion and politics impacts how pregnant women are treated in the U.S., and her own experience being pregnant. - from Wikipedia
“Because I was homeschooled, I had little opportunity to interact with people who thought differently than I. When I did, I was intellectually armed for the discussion as if I was going into battle.”
