On Halloween 2023, Redbat books released Lindsey's CASHING CHECKS with Jim Morrison, her seventh poetry collection. Her sixth (poetry collection), The BOOK of FRENZIES (Pierian Springs Press) was released in paperback on June 22, 2022, and on December 10, 2022, it appeared in hardback (Pierian Springs Press 2022). Jonas Zdanys included a poem from the Frenzies collection, "Swimming in Turkey Gravy" in its anthology, Contemporary Surrealist and Magical Realist Poety: An International Collection (LAMAR UNIVERSITY Literary Press 2022). Her fourth collection, Where Water Meets the Rock (39 West Press 2017) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and a poem in the book 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 Kansas Writers Assoociation's (KWA) 2017 “Looks Like a Million” award. Inside Virgil's Garage (Chatter House Press 2013), her second full-length collection, was a runner-up in the 2015 Nelson Book Award (KWA) and contains a poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize. McClatchy Newspapers/Kansas City Star named her first full-length poetry collection, Standing on the Edge of the World (Washburn U/Woodly Press 2008) one of the Top Ten Poetry Collectons for 2008. That book was also nominated for a Pen Award. 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, and in 21 anthologies, including the above LAMAR U collection and The Power of the Feminine Volume 1(threspress midwest 2024). Paladin Contemporaries also released two of her novels, Rapture Redux (2014) and Hamburger Haven (2008), her award-winning Cicada Grove (1992), and her initial poetry collection, Second Touch (1990).
She holds an MA and Juris Doctor and teaches creative writing classes for Art Center East in La Grande, Oregon. For five and a half years, she taught Criminal Justice classes (online) at Blue Mountain Community College (Pendleton, Oregon). (To be near children and grandchildren, she followed William Stafford’s spirit to Oregon.) Until then, she taught creative writing/literature/cultural studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, MCC—Longview and Penn Valley, Rockhurst University, and Johnson County CC. Poetry is her way of singing.
A Kansas native, 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. She holds an Master's degree in English/creative writing and a Juris Doctor. While living in the Metropolitan Kansas City area, she read often at The Writers Place, at Riverfront Readings and various bookstores, and for 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). After relocating in Oregon, she has read at Art Center East in La Grande, at a small breakaway group at the AWP Conference, Seattle, Washington 2023, and for a few ZOOM readings from Kansas City groups, including Kansas City's The Writers Place.
