Alessandra Lynch | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center

Alessandra Lynch

Alessandra Lynch’s most recent collection of poetry, Pretty Tripwire, was published in 2021. She is also the author of three other poetry collections: Sails the Wind Left BehindIt was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (winner of the Balcones Prize, finalist for the LA Times Book Award and the UNT Rilke Prize, listed as a NY Times top ten poetry books of 2017). Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals.  Alessandra has received residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lannan Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center, and she has been the recipient of a Barbara Deming Award and a Creative Renewal Fellowship Award. She has also been a featured blogger for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books. Currently, Alessandra serves as Butler University’s poet in residence where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs. Alessandra’s fifth book of poetry, Wish Ave, will be published by Alice James Books in 2024. 

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