Bio
Lynn Hoggard received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Southern California and taught at Midwestern State University, where she was professor of English and French and the coordinator of humanities. In 2003, the Texas Institute of Letters awarded her the Soeurette Diehl Fraser award for best translation. Her poem “Love in the Desert” was nominated for the 2017 Pushcart Prize by Word Fountain, and her books, Bushwhacking Home (TCU Press, 2017), and First Light (Lamar University Press, 2022) won the 2018 and the 2023, respectively) Press Women of Texas awards for best book of poetry. Her poem “In the Garden” was nominated for the 2018 Sundress Best of the Net award.
For several years, she was the arts writer for the Times Record News in Wichita Falls and wrote more than six hundred articles, features, and reviews. She has published eight books: four French translations, a biography, a memoir, and two poetry collections (Bushwhacking Home, TCU Press, 2017) and First Light (Lamar University Press, 2022). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in 13th Moon, After Happy Hour Review, The Alembic, American Studies Association of Texas, Apricity Magazine, Atlanta Review, Avalon Literary Review, Bitterzoet Magazine, Bluestem, The Broken Plate, Chaffin Journal, Clackamas Literary Review, Concho River Review, Crack the Spine, DASH Literary Journal, The Delmarva Review, descant, Door Is A Jar Magazine, El Portal, Euphony Journal, Evening Street Review, Forge, Edison Literary Review, FRiGG, Glassworks Magazine, Gloom Cupboard, GNU Journal, Headway Quarterly, The Healing Muse, Licking River Review, The MacGuffin, Mad River Review, Manhattanville Review, Mezzo Cammin, Neologism Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, Nonconformist Magazine, Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Pisgah Review, Reed Magazine, Rosebud Magazine, Sage Cigarettes, Sanskrit, Slab, Soundings East, Summerset Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Steam Ticket, Voices de la Luna, Tower Journal, Weber: The Contemporary West, Westview, WestWard Quarterly, Whistling Shade, Wild Violet, and Xavier Review, among others.
