Author: Lindsey Martin-Bowen
Title: Faculty, University of Missouri-Kansas City English Department
Bio: Lindsey Martin-Bowen 
A Kansas City native, Lindsey Martin-Bowen teaches prose and fiction writing, literature, and cultural studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she serves as Writing Assessment Coordinator. She holds an M.A. in English (creative writing emphasis) and a Juris Doctor. Woodley Press (Washburn University) released Standing on the Edge of the World, a full-length poetry collection in early 2008. The Kansas City Star Books Section included this book in its Ten Noteworthy poetry books for 2008.
 	Her poetry and fiction have appeared in New Letters, Rockhurst Review, Bare Root Review, I-70 Review, Coal City Review, River King Poetry Supplement, Thorny Locust, The Same, The Kansas City Star, Lip Service, Review, Black Bear Review, Kansas City OUTLOUD, The UMKC Law Review, and other literary magazines and anthologies. 
            In 1992, Paladin Contemporaries released her novella, Cicada Grove, which (in manuscript form) won the 1987 grand prize in the Barbara Storck Creative Writing Contest. Second Touch, her chapter of poetry was published in 1990. At UMKC law school, she worked on the law review. She has also served as editor for two national magazines, Modern Jeweler and The National Paralegal Reporter and assisted Carl Rhoden with the Borders Second Sunday Poetry Series.