Flower Conroy

What happens when you cross Emily Dickinson, medical jargon and a sci-fi poster? Or are given a scavenger list of words to find their way into a new poem only to find your map switched at the end? Find out in Flower Conroy’s generative writing prompts where craft is juxtaposed with camp, and technique and mixed-media are unleashed in a maze of imagination—promising to startle your writing into wonderfully odd sub-terrain.

Flower Conroy, an LGBTQ+ artist/writer, NEA and MacDowell Fellow, and former Key West Poet Laureate, is the author of “Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder” (winner of the Stevens Manuscript Competition) and “A Sentimental Hairpin” (a Small Press Distribution Bestseller); her third collection, “Greenest Grass” has won the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and will be published later in 2023.  She has also published five chapbooks: “Escape to Nowhere,” “Facts About Snakes & Hearts” (winner of the Heavy Feather Review Prize), “The Awful Suicidal Swans,” “And Haunt the World” (co-written with Donna Spruijt-Metz), and the forthcoming “Talking Around the Coma.” She has been nominated for Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions. Conroy was a panelist for PEN America Miami/ South Florida Chapter and has led workshops for Write Here, Write Now as well as the Key West Library and served on The Studios of Key West’s Artist Advisory Council and their Poet-in-Residence judging board. Her poetry will/has appeared in American Poetry Review, American Literary Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Notre Dame Review and others. She currently lives in New Orleans with her wife and two Papillions, Lexi and Fiddler.