The Highwayman's Wife

Lynnell Edwards is author of three full-length poetry collections, Covet, The Highwaymans Wife, and The Farmer's Daughter, and the chapbook Kings of the Rock and Roll Hot Shop. Her short fiction and book reviews have appeared in New Madrid, Connecticut Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Her poems have been featured on Verse Daily. As associate professor of English at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, she directed and taught first-year writing as well as other creative writing and literature courses. Awards include the 2007 Al Smith Fellowship. She is a founding member of Louisville Literary Arts, serving as its president 2008-2013; she currently serves on its advisory board. She served on the Kentucky Women Writers Conference Board of Directors 2012-2017. Edwards holds the PhD in Rhetoric and Composition as well as the MA with Creative Writing Thesis, both from the University of Louisville.