Connie Post

Connie Post served as the first Poet Laureate of Livermore, California from 2005 - 2009. Her work has appeared in One (Jacar Press), Calyx, Cold Mountain Review, Crab Creek Review, River Styx, The Slippery Elm, The Pedestal Magazine, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review and The Valparaiso Poetry Review . Her Awards include the Crab Creek Review Poetry award, The Liakoura Award, Caesura Poetry Award, and first prize in the Prick of the Spindle Poetry Competition. Her work has received praise from Al Young, Ursula LeGuin and Ellen Bass. Her Chapbook “And When the Sun Drops” received the Aurorean’s Editor’s Chapbook Award. Her first full length book “Floodwater” was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird award. Her Second full length, “ Prime Meridian” was released in January 2020 and also published by Glass Lyre Press