Born and raised in Rochester, NY, Lindsay Bernal holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Maryland, where she coordinates the Creative Writing Program, co-directs the Writers Here & Now reading series, and teaches undergraduate workshops and courses on poetics. Her first book, What It Doesn't Have to Do With, won the National Poetry Series competition and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2018. Poems from her in-progress, second collection appear or are forthcoming in Chicago Review, the Georgia Review, the Hopkins Review, New England Review, Oversound, Poem-a-Day, and other journals. She lives and writes in Harpswell, ME, and Baltimore, MD.