The genius of her work is at the crossroads of feelings in their crudest state, and ironic and self-critical humor.
Elizabeth M. Castillo, Revista Purgante
author lyndal cairns
Lyndal Cairns is a poet whose writing seeks to speak to the human experience through the laws of nature. Her work has been published in The Adriatic, Consilience, and others.
Her debut chapbook Planet-ishwas a collection of love poems to Pluto the demoted planetoid. It explores themes of recognition, grief, and duty through the metaphors of astrophysics and Roman mythology. Then in 2022, she published Where Oceans End, a wistful collection about what it means to love the tide.
Lyndal is currently working on a full-length book about loss and the beauty of the high desert.
lyndalcairns.com 