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What's New at Lemon Grove

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Dear Jessica, Is Taking Questions Jessica Lohafer's writing advice column is open for questions. In the past she's covered Open Mic etiquette, how to write a poem, and how to finish a project when the excitement fades. Send her your Q's! Ask away!

We Interviewed Kaitlyn Teer! "In this collection of beautifully crafted essays, Kaitlyn Teer—herself the mother of two young children—blends personal narrative, cultural analysis, and wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary research to offer new ways for readers to think more deeply and more hopefully about the radical possibilities of caregiving to bring a more just and sustainable future into being." Order her book!

About LGW

We began in 2024 as a community built on joy, sustainability, and self-trust. Whether you're just starting out or returning to the page after years away, you're welcome here. Through free co-writing sessions, deep conversations on process, and shared insights on the writing life, we create space for writers to show up, connect, and cultivate a fruitful writing life. 🍋

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Jessica Lohafer lives in Washington. Her work has appeared in Ghost Parachute, The Sweet Tree Review, Drunk in the Midnight Choir, Nailed Magazine, and Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women. Her collection of poetry, What’s Left to Be Done, was published by Radical Lunchbox Press in 2009. In 2020, she released the edited anthology, Allow the Light: The Lost Poems of Jack McCarthy. She has served as the Program Director for Poetry in Public Education, bringing writing workshops to schools throughout the Pacific Northwest, and previously hosted the Write Riot Poetry Slam. Jessica received her MFA in poetry from Western Washington University in 2014.

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Caitlin Morris is a writer, editor, and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Washington University. She currently teaches writing and literature at Bellevue College and Highline College. Caitlin’s fiction has been featured in The Copperfield Review's historical fiction anthology, Halfway Down the Stairs, Jersey Devil Press, and Ghost Parachute. She is the cohost of the Hercule Poirot book club podcast, Poirot Pals.

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Megan Nichols Megan Nichols is the author of Animal Unfit (Belle Point Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Plume, The Baltimore Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and other journals, and have been featured on Poetry Daily. Her prose has appeared in The Rumpus and Oxford American. She was a finalist for Write Bloody’s 2021 Jack McCarthy Book Prize and the 2024 Peseroff Poetry Prize, received Honorable Mention for the 2026 Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, and was named a Spring 2022 Brooklyn Poets Fellow.

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