Alessandra Lynch

Woman with a hat smiling in front of a bush
Courtesy of the poet

Alessandra Lynch was born on the East River. She is the author of Sails the Wind Left Behind (Alice James, 2002), It was a terrible cloud at twilight (LSU Press, 2008), Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (Alice James, 2017, finalist for the LA Times Poetry Book Prize, winner of the 2017 Balcones Prize in Poetry) and Pretty Tripwire (Alice James, 2021). Lynch lives with her family by a stony creek, two hackberry trees, and a magnolia trio. She is trying to grow a forest in her backyard while she serves as poet-in-residence at Butler University.

In May 2021, Lynch was a guest blogger for Harriet.