Playing Outside by Lucia Galloway

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Playing Outside

by Lucia Galloway

$14, paper

Lucia Galloway is a Los Angeles-area poet who co-hosts a poetry reading series at the public library in Claremont. Transplanted from the small-town and rural Midwest to the urban West Coast, she sees her poetry as nurtured by two cultures. Although she has worked picking berries, packing peaches, detasseling corn, checking groceries, and feeding the mangle in a linen-supply laundry, she has spent her adult life behind the teacher’s desk or at the library in front of a computer screen. She holds a Masters in English and American Literature from U.C. Berkeley and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch Los Angeles and has taught literature and writing at the high-school and college levels. When she can, she travels to distant locales, dipping into their history and culture.

Galloway is the author of Venus and Other Losses (Plain View, 2010) and a chapbook, Playing Outside (Finishing Line, 2005).  Her poems appear widely in print and on line, with recent work published or forthcoming in Comstock Review, The Dirty Napkin, Foundling Review, Red River Review, Poemeleon, and Innisfree Poetry Journal.  Her work has been recognized with several awards and prizes, including the Robert Haiduke Prize from the Bread Loaf School of English and Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations.