Lynn Pedersen

Poet

Atlanta, GA
Georgia US
Email: 
lynn@lynnpedersen.com
Website: 
www.lynnpedersen.com

Author's Bio

Lynn Pedersen is the author of The Nomenclature of Small Things (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series), Theories of Rain (Main Street Rag Editor's Choice Chapbook Series), and Tiktaalik, Adieu (Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Chapbook Series). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Ecotone, Nimrod, Bennington Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Southern Poetry Review. She is a Pushcart Prize and Georgia Author of the Year Award nominee. Pedersen is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History (The Rewiring History Project, 2015)
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Stone, River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems (Negative Capability Press, 2015)
,
[Ex]tinguised & [Ex]tinct, an Anthology of Things That No Longer [Ex]ist (Twelve Winters Press, 2014)
Book:
The Nomenclature of Small Things (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2016)
Chapbooks:
Tiktaalik, Adieu (Finishing Line Press, 2014)
,
Theories of Rain (Main Street Rag, 2009)
Journals:
Anthropoid
,
Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review
,
Chattahoochee Review
,
Cider Press Review
,
Comstock Review
,
Connecticut River Review
,
Ecotone
,
Ekphrastic Review
,
Ellipsis
,
Grey Matter
,
Heron Tree
,
Little Patuxent Review
,
New England Review
,
Nimrod
,
Santa Fe Literary Review
,
Sierra Nevada Review
,
Slipstream
,
Southern Poetry Review
,
Sow's Ear Poetry Review
,
Stone Canoe
,
TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics
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The Nassau Review
,
Tinderbox Poetry Journal
,
Tupelo Quarterly
,
Twelve Mile Review
Prizes won: 

 

2018 Mona Van Duyn Scholar, Sewanee Writers' Conference; 2017 Eric Hoffer Academic Press Award, The Nomenclature of Small Things; 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize Shortlist, The Nomenclature of Small Things; 2016 Julie Suk Award Longlist for Poetry, The Nomenclature of Small Things; 2016 Forward INDIES Finalist for Poetry, The Nomenclature of Small Things; 2016 Lascaux Prize Finalist in Collected Poetry, The Nomenclature of Small Things; 2017 Honorable Mention, Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, The Nomenclature of Small Things;  2017 Georgia Author of the Year Award Nominee, The Nomenclature of Small Things; 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention, Tiktaalik, Adieu (Chapbook); 2009 Georgia Author of the Year Award Nominee, Theories of Rain; Ecotone Evolution Contest Third Place "On Reading About the Illness and Death of Darwin's Daughter Annie"

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Teachers
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Apr 28, 2025