Lynn Aprill is an award-winning poet and retired educator whose work has appeared in Creative Wisconsin, Sky Island Journal, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Quartet Journal, Willows Wept Review, Ekphrastic Review and others. She is currently an MFA candidate at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO. Channeling Matriarchs, her first chapbook with Finishing Line Press, was published in August 2021, and her second chapbook, Aging in Place, was published by Water’s Edge Press in April 2025. She resides with her husband and various dogs on 40 acres in Northeast Wisconsin.