Introduction

Lynnell Edwards is the author of two books of poetry: The Highwayman's Wife (2007) and The Farmer's Daughter (2003), both from Red Hen Press. Her work has appeared on Verse Daily and in the anthologies Poets Against the War; Raising Our Voices: Oregon Poets Against the War; What Comes Down to Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets and Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po listserve, as well as literary journals including: Poems & Plays, Smartish Pace, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry East, and Dos Passos Review. Her poetry has been twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she is a regular reviewer for The Georgia Review, Pleiades, and Rain Taxi.

She lives in Louisville, Kentucky where she teaches at Bellarmine University and the University of Louisville and is associate director for the InKY reading series and board president for InKY, Inc. She received her doctorate in English at the University of Louisville and her undergraduate degree at Centre College in Kentucky. She is the recipient of a 2007 Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council.