Lynne Thompson is the author of Start With a Small Guitar (What Books Press, 2013) and Beg No Pardon (Perugia Press, 2007), winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award. In 2018, Jane Hirshfield selected her manuscript Fretwork (2019) as the winner of the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Colorado Review, Nelle, Pleiades, and New England Review, as well as the anthology Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California.