Thompson, Lynne: - Lynne Thompson is the author of START WITH A SMALL GUITAR (What Books Press, 2013) and Beg No Pardon (Perugia Press, 2007), which won the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers' Award in 2008. Thompson was commissioned to write poems for Scripps College's installation of a statue of Harriet Tubman and for Emory University's choreographic staging of Warrior Woman Pantoum. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems have been widely published in literary journals including Ploughshares, Sou'Wester, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Prairie Schooner, as well as the anthologies New Poets of the American West and Mischief, Caprice & Other Poetic Strategies. Thompson is the Reviews & Essays Editor of Tebot Bach's literary journal, Spillway.