Flower Conroy

Flower Conroy is an LGBTQIA+ writer, a National Endowment for the Arts and a MacDowell Fellow, and a former Key West poet laureate. She is the author of Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder (NFSPS Press, 2019), winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition; A Sentimental Hairpin (Tolsun Books, 2021), listed as a November 2021 best seller by Small Press Distribution; and Greenest Grass (forthcoming, 2023), winner of the Blue Lynx Press Prize. 

Conroy’s work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, the New England Review, Prairie Schooner, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and the Key West Literary Seminar. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and the Pushcart Prize. Conroy has exhibited her poetry and assemblage art at The Studios of Key West.