Ann Tweedy

-- Winner, Bisexual Book Award, 2017

-- Gold Winner, Human Relations Indie Book Award, 2017

-- Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, 2017

-- Finalist, Golden Crown Literary Society Award, 2017

Ann Tweedy’s first full-length book, The Body’s Alphabet, was published by Headmistress Press in August 2016 and received a Bisexual Book Award in Poetry and a Human Relations Indie Book Award in 2017. It was also selected as a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Golden Crown Literary Society Award. Additionally, she has published three chapbooks: Beleaguered Oases (2nd ed. Seven Kitchens Press 2020), A Registry of Survival (Last Word Press 2020), and White Out (Green Fuse Press 2013). Her poetry has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Rattle, damselfly press, Lavender Review, literary mama, Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ann holds an MFA from Hamline University. Originally from Southeastern Massachusetts, she has lived in many places on the West Coast and in the Midwest. She recently moved from Washington State to South Dakota to teach at University of South Dakota. In addition to writing poetry and essays, she is also a law professor and a practicing attorney who represents Indian Tribes. Read more at www.anntweedy.com.