Lynne Thompson is the Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles. She is the author of Start With a Small Guitar and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, and Fretwork, winner of the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. A Pushcart Prize nominee,Thompson’s work has been published in Pleiades, Catamaran, The Common, Ploughshares and Best American Poetry 2020, among others.
