About

Lynne Burnett was born in England, raised in Canada and lived in West Vancouver, BC for almost forty years, before moving to Parksville on Vancouver Island. She put writing aside for twenty of them to raise a family and is now happily back at it. She likes what moves between the lines, stretching the limits of words – the lives of the heart, peaks and valleys of the mind. She’s a keen boater and avid reader who meditates and walks daily. Her poems have appeared in many Canadian and American journals* and she is the winner of the 2016 Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize, 2019 Jack Grapes Poetry Prize and Kelsay Books’ 2023 Women’s Poetry Contest.

*Arc Poetry Magazine, Blue Heron Review, Calyx, Cloudbank, Comstock Review, Cosmographia, Crosswinds, Crowstep, Cultural Weekly, CV2, formidable woman sanctuary, Geist, Halfway Down The Stairs, IthacaLit, Kissing Dynamite, Malahat Review, Mockingheart Review, Modern Haiku, New Millennium Writings, New Verse News, North Shore Magazine, Pandora’s Collective, Passager, Pedestal, Recenter Press, Ristau, River Styx, Soul Lit, Stone, Tamsen, Taos Journal of Poetry & Art, The American Journal of Poetry, The Zen Space, Thimble Lit and Wordrunner, as well as several anthologies, including a Tupelo Press chapbook, “On Broken Stones”, New Millennium Writings 25th Anthology, an Origami Poems Project, “The Best of Kindness 2017”, The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 and “Poets Speaking To Poets: Echoes and Tributes”. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee (twice), she has been longlisted for The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition (2021), shortlisted for both Arc’s and New Letters’ Poem of the Year, the Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award, the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize, and five times for the Bridport Prize, and received Honorable Mention in River Styx’ 2017 International Contest.