Lilace Mellin Guignard

Lilace Mellin Guignard lives with her husband and two children in rural Pennsylvania, where she teaches poetry and creative nonfiction writing, women’s studies, and rock climbing at Mansfield University. Her work has appeared in the journals Calyx, poemmemoirstory, Louisiana Literature, Paterson Literary Review, Ecotone and Poetry magazine. Her chapbook, Young at the Time of Letting Go was a co-winner of the Evening Street Press Helen Kay Chapbook 2015 contest, and she is writing a creative nonfiction book about women outdoors for Texas A&M Press. She enjoys climbing and biking with her husband, eavesdropping on her children, and shaking things up in adult Sunday school. Her blog, A Tent of One’s Own, is on-line at www.tentofonesown.com.