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 and teaches in the Creative Writing Program and co-directs the Writers Here & Now reading series. Her first collection of poems, What It Doesn't Have to Do With, a winner of the National Poetry Series competition, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2018. Poems from her in-progress, second collection have appeared or are forthcoming in the Georgia Review, New England Review, Oversound, Poem-a-Day, and other journals.