You have reached the writing blog of Lorna Wood, whose bio appears below.

Lorna Wood was raised in Oberlin, Ohio, by a composer and an art historian. She received degrees in violin performance and English from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University. After graduate school, she was an instructor for six years at Auburn University.

In addition to The Great Garbage Patch: Reflections on Fascism (Alien Buddha Press), Family Values (on Kindle) and The Jesus Wars (on Kindle and in paperback), Lorna’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Wordrunner eChapbooks, The Big Windows Review, Paper Dragon, The Mantelpiece, Verse Daily, Best of Alien Buddha, Alien Buddha Zine, Autumn Sky Daily, 100subtexts, Coalition Works, t’ART online, Grand Little Things, The Poetry Bar, 2% Milk, WhimsicalPoet, Angel Rust (Best of the Net nominee), Otherwise Engaged,  FEED, Litterateur, Fevers of the Mind (Wolfpack Contributor), Poetic Sun, Right Hand Pointing, Schlock!, Nevermore, MacQueen’s Quinterly, cc&d, 34 Orchard, Lucky Jefferson (365), Coffin Bell, Doubleback Review (Pushcart nominee), Poems for the Thoughtful Young (B Cubed Press), Daikaijuzine, Online Writing Tips (co-winner, third prize, 2019 fiction contest), Litro [USA] Lab, Courtship of Winds, Every Day Fiction, Brave New Word, M58, Scarlet Leaf Review, NoSleep Podcast, Canyons of the Damned, Five:2:One (#thesideshow), Jerry Jazz Musician (finalist, 2017 fiction contest), Wild Violet, Cacti Fur, Every Writer, and the following anthologies: Contemporary Poems–2022 (Fresh Words), Bullshit 01, Love (Pure Slush), A Monster Told Me Bedtime Stories (Soteira Press), Escape Wheel (Great Weather for MEDIA), Horror USA: California (Soteira Press), What We Talk About When We Talk About It (Darkhouse), Leaves of Loquat V (second prize, 2018 Loquat Literary Festival contest), Luminous Echoes (poems shortlisted for Into the Void‘s 2016 contest), and Dark Magic (Owl Hollow Press), among others. She was a featured writer in the 2022 erbacce-prize and long-listed in 2019, and in 2016 she was a finalist in the Neoverse Short Story Competition and the Valus’ Sigil contest at Sharkpack Poetry Review. Her poetry has been favorably reviewed on New Pages (15 Dec. 2016), and this blog was featured in Mslexia. Lorna has also published scholarly essays on the American Renaissance, children’s literature, and Lolita.

Find out more at https://www.amazon.com/author/lornawood.