Flesh

by Christina Lovin

$14, paper

Christina Lovinis the author of two full-length volumes of poetry (ECHO, Bottom Dog Press, 2014;A Stirring in the Dark, Old Seventy Creek Press, 2012) andfour chapbooks of poetry (What We Burned for Warmth,2006;Little Fires(#55 in the New Womens Voices Poetry Series), 2008;Flesh,2012 all, Finishing Line Press; andGod of Sparrows(forthcoming, 2020, Blue Lyra Press) ). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in over a hundred journals and anthologies in the United States and abroad. Having studied creative writing at Harvard Universitys summer writing program, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. Her work has been supported on several occasions with monetary grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Kentucky Arts Council, including the 2007 Al Smith Fellowship. She has been writer-in-residence at Connemara, the North Carolina home of the late poet Carl Sandburg, Andrews Experimental Forest near Blue River, Oregon, and Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. Her writing has led her to residencies at Footpaths House to Creativity on the island of Flores in the Azores, Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Prairie Center for the Arts (IL), and Hopscotch House (KY). She lives with rescue dogs in central Kentucky, where she teaches writing in the English and Department at Eastern Kentucky University.