Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts (University of Iowa Press, 2016), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, as well as Anxious Creatures, winner of the 2025 Pamet River Prize and forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2028. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, The Adroit Journal, Indiana Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Passages North, among others.

Lindsay has been a Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a James Merrill fellow at the Vermont Studio Center, and is 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 is a former assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Eastern New Mexico University and now works as an Educational Specialist at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. She teaches online poetry workshops for Writing Workshops and lives in Ferndale, Michigan.

Author photo credit: Madeline Laguaite.