Winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize in 2016 and a Master Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles for 2015-16, poet Lynne Thompson is the author of Start With a Small Guitar and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Ecotone, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Crab Creek Review, and, Poetry, among others. Thompson is Reviews and Essays Editor of the literary journal, Spillway.