Frannie LindsayFrannie Lindsay, of Belmont, Massachusetts, won the 2009 Word Works Washington Prize for her full-length poetry manuscript, MAYWEED. Lindsay's two previous books are also prize winners: Lamb won the 2006 Perugia Press Intro Award and was runner-up fo the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Where She Always Was Utah State (University Press) was selected for the 2004 May Swenson Award. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Field, The Yale Review, and many others. Her poems have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio's Writer's Almanac. She earned her MFA at the University of Iowa and is also a classical pianist. Lindsay has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony. Read More Read Less