Alessandra Lynch’s most recent collection of poetry, Pretty Tripwire, was published in 2021. She  is also the author of three other poetry collections: Sails the Wind Left Behind,  It was a terrible cloud at twilight, and Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment (winner of the Balcones Prize, finalist for the LA Times Book Award and the UNT Rilke Prize, listed as a NY Times top ten poetry books of 2017). Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, The New England Review, The Kenyon Review, Plougshares, and other journals. Alessandra has received residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Lannan Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center, and 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. Currently, Alessandra serves as Butler University’s poet in residence where she teaches in the undergraduate and MFA programs. Alessandra’s fifth book of poetry, Wish Ave, will be published by Alice James Books in 2024.

"Every line of Alessandra Lynch’s superb Pretty Tripwire is measured by a perilous beauty, catastrophic in its cascade of losses. Each poem—short lyric or long sequence—is a blueprint of residence, ghosted by a troubled father, a 'daughter I did not have,' a self 'grown thin' in sorrow. In this way it’s a book about the making and unmaking of households as well as poems, a web of kindred relationships with their snares and nests and 'beds of dirt.' I realize these households radiate from deep within the acute interior of Lynch’s imagination, but I remain truly haunted by every intimate, actual point of contact—is it tenderness? is it brute force?—in the gardens and doorways of Pretty Tripwire."
—David Baker