Alessandra Lynch is the author of three books of poetry: Sails the Wind Left Behind (Alice James Books 2002) It was a terrible cloud at twilight (Pleiades/LSU Press 2008), and Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (Alice James Books, 2017). Daylily was listed as one of 2017's "Best Books of Poetry" by David Orr for The New York Times. It was a finalist for the LA Times Book Award and the UNT Rilke Prize, and it was the winner of the Balcones Prize in Poetry. Her next book of poetry Pretty Tripwire
will be published by Alice James Books in January 2021.
Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. Lynch’s poems have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and she has been the recipient of fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, and a Creative Renewal Fellowship from the Indianapolis Council for the Arts. She teaches in the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs at Butler University.
Some of Lynch’s poetic meditations (“Epigraphs for a River and a Canal”) are featured in two installations along Indianapolis’ waterways as part of the “Stream/Lines” project, a place-based arts and science learning project funded by the National Science Foundation that was created to invite the community to learn, explore, and experience the science of local water systems through visual art, poetry, dance, and music.
