WELCOME
Nancy Lynée Woo is an eco-centric poet based in southern California who harbors a wild love for the natural world. She has released a full-length poetry book entitled I’d Rather Be Lightning from Gasher Press, as well as two chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Salamander, Tupelo Quarterly, Radar Poetry, Stirring, West Trade Review, and others. Nancy has received fellowships from PEN America, California Creative Corps, Artists at Work, Arts Council for Long Beach, Plympton Writing Downtown, and Idyllwild Writers Week. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She has an MFA from Antioch University and a BA in sociology and environmental studies from UC Santa Cruz.
welcoming my debut poetry collection
"Nancy Lynee Woo's dreadfully charming ecopocalypse I'D RATHER BE LIGHTINING is such a beautiful, jarring, funny, and wild collection of poems, capturing the hopes and fears of a young Angeleno at the cusp of the end of the world.” Pete Hsu
I'd rather be lightning available now at gasherpress.com ~
I'd rather be lightning available now at gasherpress.com ~
recent poems
Why poetry?
A poem can be
a lesson in empathy
a moment of magic
a way to rewrite the world
What else is there to do but create?
I run a poetry workshop called Surprise the Line
if you want to write with me!