Jacqueline Lyons is the author of the poetry collections Earthquake Daily (New Michigan Press), The Way They Say Yes Here (Hanging Loose Press), which won a Peace Corps Writers Best Poetry Book Award, Lost Colony (Dancing Girl Press), and the nonfiction manuscript Breakdown of Poses, which was a finalist for the AWP Award Series Prize in Creative Nonfiction and the Permafrost Book Prize in Nonfiction (University of Alaska Press). She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, an Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Utah Arts Council Awards in poetry and nonfiction, and a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship in nonfiction. She is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at California Lutheran University, and lives on the southern segment of the San Andreas Fault.