Lylanne Musselman

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Lylanne Musselman is an award winning poet, artist, and playwright.

She is the former arts blogger for Wheresthecat.com, but she blogs at Writing Prompt Pit Stop. She is an occasional correspondent on WFHB radio's BloomingOUT, with her feature "L" WordS. Lylanne's poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry Breakfast, cahoodaloodaling, Silver Birch Press, The Rusty Nail, Wilderness Review Literary Journal, Umbrella, PANK, New Verses News, Tipton Poetry Journal, Art & Poems, Thread, Flying Island, Bird's Eye reView, The Prose Poem Project, many Outrider Press Anthologies, among others. She was a winner of the Eli Jenkin's Five & Country Senses Poetry Competition in September 2009, and she was runner-up in Indy's Masterpiece in a Day in 2005 & 2006, and won 3rd place in 2008.

Lylanne teaches online Comp, Argument, American Lit, Intro to Poetry, and Creative Writing for Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, IN. While living in Ohio, Lylanne instructed Creative Writing courses for the Lifelong Learning Center at Terra State Community College, Fremont, OH.

She also taught Creative Writing Workshops for Clyde Public Library in Clyde, OH, and for The 577 Foundation in Perrysburg, OH.

Lylanne currently serves on the board of the Midwest Writers Workshop; she has been a board member of the Tall Grass Writers Guild, Chicago, IL, 2001-2015, and she served as an elected Executive Board Member of The Society of the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2011-2014.

Lylanne is available to teach creative writing workshops and art workshops. Contact her for more information.

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Lylanne is the author of Red Mare 16 : Paparazzi for the Birds. It is her 5th poetry chapbook. The chapbook is a limited edition, with only a few copies left! You can order your copies from SuZI at Red Mare. Copies of the edition are housed in various libraries, including Poet's House, the Schlesinger, and Special Collections at the University of Chicago. It became available in November, 2018.

Lylanne is the author of the new poetry collection, It's Not Love, Unfortunately. It was published in July 2018 by Chatter House Press. Lylanne will be doing many readings that are scheduled throughout 2019.

Lylanne is featured in the anthology: Resurrection of a Sunflower - a book dedicated to the artist Vincent van Gogh. (Pski's Porch, 2017) The anthology is available here.

Lylanne is featured in the anthology: Our Last Walk: Using Poetry for Grieving and Remembering Our Pets (University Professors Press, 2016). That anthology is available here.

Lylanne's newest chapbook, Weathering Under the Cat, is available from Finishing Line Press, or by contacting her for a copy.

Readings will be booked when these books are available. Check here for dates.

Lylanne's chapbook, WINGED GRAFFITI, was published in August 2011 by Finishing Line Press. Be sure to check back here to see scheduled readings and book signings.

Winged City Press an imprint of New Sins Press, published Lylanne's chapbook, A Charm Bracelet For Cruising in 2009. You can order your copies by contacting New Sins Press.