Lynne Thompson

Biography

Lynne Thompson won the 2007 Perugia Press Book Prize for her first full-length collection of poems, Beg No PardonBeg No Pardonwas also awarded the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a frequent reader, both locally and nationally, Thompson is also the author of two poetry chapbooks, We Arrive By Accumulation andThrough A Window, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies including RattleSoutheast ReviewMargieIndiana Review, and Blue Arc West, An Anthology of California Poets. She is an attorney and the Director of Employee & Labor Relations at UCLA.

First posted: May 17, 2009

Last modified: April 18, 2016