Lynn Fitzgerald is a writer, photographer, and professor. Her chapbook, Closer to the Earth, was awarded a Community Arts Assistance Grant and was published by Moon Journal Press. Her poem, The Stendhal Syndrome, received a Jane Hirshfield Award, and her proposal, Bewildered and Amused by Laura’s  Everlasting Radiance, won an Oppenheimer Award for publication of a student anthology.  A collection of poems is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Currently, she is at work on poems written while living in Beirut.