Fire Season: Super Perennial
“in one dream, a rain shower in every room, matchbook tucked / into the hem of a yellow dress / fountain tumbling with smoke instead of water,”
Jacqueline Lyons
Jacqueline Lyons is the author of poetry collections Adorable Airport (Barrow Street Press), The Way They Say Yes Here (Hanging Loose Press), and poetry chapbooks Earthquake Daily (New Michigan Press), and Lost Colony (Dancing Girl Press). Her nonfiction has been cited in Best American Essays, and her essay collection, Breakdown of Poses, was named finalist for an AWP Award Series Prize in Nonfiction. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Peace Corps Writers Best Poetry Book Award, Utah Arts Council Awards in poetry and nonfiction, and a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in nonfiction. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at California Lutheran University, and lives on the southern segment of the San Andreas Fault.