Lucy Adkins

Lucy Adkins grew up in rural Nebraska, and she attended country schools and the University of Nebraska before earning a BA from Auburn University. She is the author of the chapbook One Life Shining: Addie Finch, Farmwife (Pudding House Press, 2007) and a non-fiction book Writing in Community: Say Goodbye to Writer’s Block and Transform Your Life (WriteLife, 2013), co-written with Becky Breed. Her poetry has been published in various journals and magazines, including Rhino, Red Wheelbarrow, Northeast, South Dakota Review, Concho River Review, and several anthologies including Times of Sorrow/Times of Grace, Women Write Resistance, Crazy Woman Creek, and the Poets Against the War anthology. Adkins lives in Nebraska.