Lyn Lifshin

Lyn Lifshin has written more than 125 books and chapbooks and has edited 4 anthologies of women writers. She won the Jack Kerouac Award for her book Kiss the Skin Off, the Paterson Poetry Award for Before It's Light, and the Texas Review Award for The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian. She's been praised by Robert Frost, Ken Kesey, and Richard Eberhart, and is the subject of the award-winning documentary film Not Made of Glass. Lifshin earned the distinction "Queen of the Small Presses" for her dedication to the small presses which first published her, and for surviving on her own apart from any major publishing house or academic institution. Her poems have appeared in most of the poetry and literary magazines in the United States.