Lynda La Rocca is a New York City-born poet and freelance writer who has also worked as a teaching assistant and a municipal and general-assignment reporter for New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press.
Lynda’s four previous poetry-chapbook collections include Spiral (Liquid Light Press, 2012) and Unbroken (Kelsay Books, 2023). Her individual poems have appeared in such publications as Frogpond (Haiku Society of America), The New York Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal, The Colorado Sun, and Light, a journal of light verse since 1992.
She was the first-place winner in the poetry category of the 2020 Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, an arts outreach program of the National League of American Pen Women, and a “Top-Four” winner in the 2021 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest.
Lynda has taught adult-education poetry, presented poetry workshops at numerous venues, and served as a judge in dozens of state, national, and international poetry contests. She loves writing, reading, cooking (and eating), learning about wine, watching figure skating, hiking, birding, spending lots of time in nature, and performing her poetry solo and as a member of the River City Nomads’ performance-poetry troupe. Lynda lives in Salida, Colorado, with her writer-photographer husband Steve Voynick.
Paperback: 60 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (October 2, 2024)