Jacqueline Lyons is the author of the poetry collections Adorable Airport (Barrow Street Press, 2018); Earthquake Daily (New Michigan Press, 2017); The Way They Say Yes Here (Hanging Loose Press, 2004), which won a Peace Corps Writers Best Poetry Book Award; and Lost Colony (Dancing Girl Press, 2009). Her nonfiction has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and cited in Best American Essays, and her collection of essays, Breakdown of Poses, was named finalist for an AWP Award Series in Nonfiction and a Permafrost Book Prize in Nonfiction. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, an Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Utah Arts Council Awards in poetry and nonfiction, and a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in nonfiction. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the literary journals AGNI, Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Poetry Ireland Review, Sonora Review, The Southern Review, and many others. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at California Lutheran University, and lives on the southern segment of the San Andreas Fault.
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