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Kathleen Lynch’s collection Hinge (released 2006) won the Black Zinnias Press National Book Competition.  Lynch’s chapbook collection How to Build an Owl won the Select Poet Series award from Small Poetry Press.  No Spring Chicken won the White Eagle Coffee Store Press Award.  Small Poetry Press published her Alterations of Rising in its Select Poet Series.  Pudding House Publications released Kathleen Lynch - Greatest Hits in its gold invitational series in 2002.  Her poems have been anthologized and appear in many literary journals.  Among her awards, she received the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Choice Award, the Salt Hill Poetry Award, a Peregrine prize, and the Two Rivers Review Prize.  She grew up in Sacramento, California.  She has lived in Pullman, Washington; Avon, Connecticut; San Jose CA; Poway CA; Pleasanton CA; Fremont CA; Loomis CA and Carmichael CA.  Lynch has also published fiction, essays, reviews, B&W art photographs.

Read Kathleen Lynch’s poem “Canned Food Drive” on the Poetry magazine website.

Sixteen poems by Kathleen Lynch in the Anthology Times Ten: An Anthology of Northern California Poets.

Doren Robbins is the author of nine collections, including Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues and Prose Poetry (Cedar Hill Books, 2004), Driving Face Down, winner of The Blue Lynx Prize (Lynx House Press, Eastern Washington University, 2001), The Donkey's Tale (Red Wind Press, 1998), and Sympathetic Manifesto (Perivale Press, 1987).  In 2007, Eastern Washington University Press will publish a new book of poems, My Piece of the Puzzle.

Robbins has received a state fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, as well as prizes, grants, and awards from Passaic Poetry Center, the Loft Foundation, The Centrum Residency Program, The Judah Magnes Museum, Chester H. Jones Foundation, The Lane Literary Guild, The Seattle Arts Commission and, as an editor, from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and The California Arts Council. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize.  Currently, he is professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Foothill College.

Read four poems by Doren Robbins on poetrymagazine.com.

Read two poems on the Third Rail website.
 

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