Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts (2016), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and published by the University of Iowa Press, as well as Anxious Creatures, winner of the 2025 Pamet River Prize and forthcoming from YesYes Books. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Bennington Review, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Verse Daily, diode, Indiana Review and Hayden’s Ferry Review, among other journals.

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 while teaching poetry workshops for Writing Workshops. She lives in Ferndale, Michigan.

Author photo credit: Madeline Laguaite.