Lysette Simmons
Lysette Simmons is from California, where she studied Creative Writing and Music History at UCLA. She has studied with Ben Lerner, Anselm Berrigan and Marjorie Welish at Brooklyn College, where she recently earned her MFA in poetry. Lysette's forthcoming chapbook, Dear Robert, won the Wild and Wyrd Poetry Chapbook Contest, judged by C.A. Conrad, in 2011.