Lorna Knowles Blake's first collection of poems, Permanent Address, won the 2006 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize and will be published by the Ashland Poetry Press in 2007. Her poems have appeared recently in Barrow Street, The Bellingham Review, Cortland Review, and the Hudson Review. She lives and works in New York City and Cape Cod.

All the poems by Lorna Knowles Blake that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 5, 2003:  "King Sugar" "Sugar cane harvest..."
February 7, 2003:  "Miniature" "The doll house builder loves to be in charge..."

Other poems on the web by Lorna Knowles Blake:
"Vissi D'Arte"
Three poems
"Autumn Argument"

About Lumina:
Poets in this issue: Ivanna Yi, Emily Ferrara, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Holly Clark, Lorna Knowles Blake, Margot Wizansky, Robert Behrens , Adina Schoem, Darrell G.H. Schramm, Caryn Lazzuri, Nikky Finney, Cathy Park Hong, Barbara Helfgott Hyett, John Murillo, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Anna Catone, Jeff Boyle, Lee Firestone Dunne, Sarah B. Gibson, Kevin Pilkington, Clara Silverstein, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Thomas Lux, Ross Gay, Kate Knapp Johnson, Jeffrey McDaniel, Rebecca Keith, Tina Chang