Lynn Fitzgerald is a published poet and adjunct professor of literature and writing for the City Colleges of Chicago, where she currently teaches.
Her poems have appeared in: After Hours Press, Calliope, Word Salad, Amused, The English Journal, Outrider Press, Chicago Area Writers, Urban Nation, Anthology of Chicago Poets, Illuminated Muse, WBEZ Dial-a-Poem, Somerville Times; The Lyrical Muse, Ibbetson Review, among others. She received the Jane Hirschfield Award for her poem, “The Stendhal Syndrome” and a CAAP Award from the city of Chicago for artistic merit and publication of a chapbook, Closer to the Earth, published by Moon Journal Press.
She has been a featured reader at The National Convention of Teachers of English annual conference, the Printers Row Book Fair, Dandelion Books, Tangible Books, Greenview Arts Center, Chopin Theatre, SoNa Gallery, Mind’s Eye Gallery, Oliva Gallery, Estelle’s, Bucktown Arts Fair, Fountain of the Muse, NYC, Nuyorican Café, New York, Le Chat Noir, Paris, The American University of Paris, the University of Bordeaux, France, and other cafés, bookstores, and galleries.
In addition, she has served as Poet-in -Residence for the Chicago Public Library, where she taught creative writing workshops. Her photographs have been published in After Hours Press, the Lakeview Press, The Lerner Newspapers, and Gallery 37.
She has been the recipient of four National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, three Oppenheimer Foundation Awards for innovation in teaching, an award for scholarly research from the Mellon Institute, and was selected as a participant in the Newberry Library Scholars Program.
Her teaching and writing experiences have taken her to China, Lebanon, and Kuwait, where she served as a faculty member of the English Department for international schools and as an adviser for the International Baccalaureate Program.
