Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts, which was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work appears in POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Verse Daily, diode, Indiana Review and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among other journals. She was a Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a James Merrill fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, and a former assistant to the editors at the Georgia Review. She is a graduate of both the MFA program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University and the PhD program in English/Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. She has taught creative writing at Eastern New Mexico University. She is now an Educational Specialist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and teaches poetry workshops for Writing Workshops. She lives in Ferndale, Michigan.

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