George Ella Lyon

George Ella Lyon is the author of four books of poetry, a novel, a memoir, and a short story collection as well as numerous books for young readers. Her most recent collections are Many-Storied House (Univ. Press of Kentucky, 2013) and She Let Herself Go (LSU Press, 2012) . Married to musician/writer Steve Lyon, she is the mother of two sons. She works as a freelance writer and teacher based in Lexington, Ky.

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Issue 64.2 Spring 2015

Emily was a body when she wrote “I’m nobody.” Now she is no body everybody knows * The way the flower takes the bee and the bee the flower * Her life was simple at the beginning. She died …