Alessandra Lynch’s fifth book of poetry, Wish Ave, was published by Alice James Books in 2024. She is the author of four other poetry collections: Pretty Tripwire, Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (winner of the Balcones Prize, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the UNT Rilke Prize, and listed as a New York Times top ten poetry book of 2017), It was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Sails the Wind Left Behind. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. Alessandra has received residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lannan Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She has been the recipient of a Barbara Deming Award and a Creative Renewal Fellowship Award.

She has also been a featured blogger for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books. She has collaborated with musician Earl Townsend, composer Harriet Steinke, painter Richard Rosenblatt, and artist Carlos Rodriguez-Mendez.

Currently, Alessandra serves as Butler University’s poet in residence, where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs. Lynch has also facilitated workshops for poets in the community. Both of her children were born in Indianapolis.