Lindsey Martin-Bowen

 A poem in her fourth collection, Where Water Meets the Rock (39 West Press 2017) reaped an Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest’s 85th Contest. Her third, CROSSING KANSAS with Jim Morrison (in chapbook form), was a finalist in the QuillsEdge Press 2015-2016 contest and won the KAC 2017 “Looks Like a Million.” Her poems have appeared in many lit zines, including New Letters, I-70 Review, Thorny Locust, Flint Hills Review, Coal City Review, Ekphrastic Review (Egyptian Challenge), Phantom Drift, and Rockhurst Review. She holds an MA and Juris Doctor and teaches Criminal Justice classes at Blue Mountain Community College. (To be near children and grandchildren, she followed William Stafford’s spirit to Oregon.) Until then, she taught writing/literature at UMKC, MCC—Longview, Penn Valley, Rockhurst University, and Johnson County CC. Poetry is her way of singing.

A Kansas native, Lindsey Martin-Bowen taught writing, literature, and cultural studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City for 18 years. Until September 2018, she taught writing and Criminal Law at MCC-Longview in Lee's Summit, Missouri. She has also taught Classical Literature and writing at Rockhurst University, served as a full-time newspaper reporter for The Johnson County SUN and the Louisville Times, as Associate Editor for Modern Jeweler Magazine and as Editor of The National Paralegal Reporter. Her latest poetry collection is INSIDE VIRGIL'S GARAGE, released in early 2013. She holds an MA In English/creative writing and a Juris Doctor. She read often at The Writers Place (KCMO) and The Thomas Zvi Wilson Reading Program in the Johnson County Central Resource Library. With poet Carl Rhoden, she helped organize the Second Sunday Reading series at Borders in Overland Park, Kansas (1991-2001).