grew up at Ground Zero.

She is author of the chapbooks How to Write an Essay (Red Mare Press, 2026) and In Life There Are Many Things (Black Lawrence Press, 2023).

She holds an MFA from UMass Amherst and a BA from Emory University, where she received the Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts.

She currently lives in Chicago, where she is pursuing an MAT in elementary education and working as a fifth grade assistant teacher.

You can say hi at lucywainger [at] gmail [dot] com.