Redbat books released Lindsey's CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison, her sixth full-length poetry collection on October 31, 2023. On June 29, 2022, her fifth poetry collection, The BOOK of FRENZIES was released in paperback, and on December 10, 2022, it appeared in hardback (Pierian Springs Press 2022). 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. (Since relocating in NE Oregon, she has taught Criminal Law, American Court Systems & Practices, and Procdural (Criminal) Law at Blue Mountain College.) 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. Redbat books released her sixth (full-length) poetry collection (and 10th book), CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison on October 31, 2023). Her other poetry collections include The BOOK of FRENZIES (Pierian Springs Press 2022), WHERE WATER MEETS THE ROCK (39 WEST PRESS 2017), CROSSING KANSAS with Jim Morrison (Paladin Contemporaries 2016), INSIDE VIRGIL'S GARAGE (Chatter House Press 2013) and STANDING on the EDGE of THE WORLD (Woodley Press/Washburn University 2008). Her published novels include CICADA GROVE (Paladin Contemporaries 1992), HAMBURGER HAVEN (2009) and RAPTURE REDUX (2014). She holds an Master's degree 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).
