Lyn Lifshin’s recent prizewinning book (Paterson Poetry Award) Before It’s Light was  published winter 1999-2000 by Black Sparrow press, following their publication of Cold Comfort in 1997. Another Woman Who Looks Like Me will be published by Black Sparrow-David Godine in 2006.  (ORDER@GODINE). Also recently published is A New Film About A Woman In Love With The Dead, March Street Press. She has published more than 100 books of poetry, including Marilyn Monroe, Blue Tattoo, won awards for her non fiction and edited 4 anthologies of women's writing including Tangled Vines, Ariadne's Thread and Lips Unsealed. Her poems have appeared in most literary and poetry magazines and she is the subject of an award winning documentary film, Lyn Lifshin: Not Made Of Glass, available from Women Make Movies. Her poem, "No More Apologizing" has been called "among the most impressive documents of the women's poetry movement," by Alicia Ostriker.  An update to her Gale Research Projects Autobiographical series, On The Outside, Lips, Blues, Blue Lace, was published Spring 2003.

Texas Review Press has just published her prize winning book of poems about the famous, short lived beautiful race horse, Ruffian: The Licorice Daughter: My Year With Ruffian. New chapbooks include When A Cat Dies and Another Woman’s Story,  Barbie Poems, She Was Last Seen Treading Water and forthcoming books include Mad Girl Poems, and, just out, The Daughter I Don’t Have and Tsunami.  A new collection, Persephone, will be published by Red Hen Press. Arielle Press will publish Poets (Mostly) Who Have Touched Me, Living And Dead. All True, Especially The Lies summer of 2006.  And Presa Press has published In Mirrors. For interviews, photographs, more bio material, reviews, interviews, prose, samples of work and more, her web site is www.lynlifshin.com. She is working on a new collection of selected poems.

Book Cover:  The Licorice Daughter, My Year With Ruffian