About Lorna Wood

Lorna Wood was raised in Oberlin, OH by a composer and an art historian. She received degrees in violin performance and English from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in English from Yale University. After graduate school, she was an instructor for six years at Auburn University. In addition to Family Values, Lorna has writing appearing or forthcoming in Daikaijuzine, Online Writing Tips, Lemon Theory, Litro (USA) Lab, Courtship of Winds, Brave New Word, M58, Scarlet Leaf Review, NoSleep Podcast, Canyons of the Damned, Clockwise Cat, Poetry South, Five:2:One, formercactus, Poetry WTF?!, Wiki Lit, Jerry Jazz Musician, Unstitched States, Mysterical-E, Wild Violet, Cacti Fur, Birds Piled Loosely, Every Writer, and the anthologies Horror USA: California (Soteira Press), What We Talk About When We Talk About It (Darkhouse), Leaves of Loquat VI (Loquat Literary Festival), Luminous Echoes (Into the Void Magazine), and Dark Magic (Owl Hollow Press), among others. In 2019 she co-won third prize in the Online Writing Tips Short Fiction Competition and was long-listed for the erbacce-prize; in 2018 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Poetry South and won second prize in the Loquat Literary Festival poetry contest; in 2017 she was a finalist in the Jerry Jazz Musician contest; and in 2016 she was shortlisted for Into the Void's poetry competition and a finalist in the Neoverse Short Story Competition and the Valus' Sigil contest at Sharkpack Poetry Review. Her poetry has been favorably reviewed on New Pages. Lorna has published scholarly essays on the American Renaissance and children's literature, and Lolita, and she is currently Associate Editor of Gemini Magazine.

Lorna's son, William Wehrs, wrote Five Scary Adventures in Playtime (illustrated by Lorna and now on Kindle) for his art class when he was eight. William is currently working towards a master's degree in education at Lehigh University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a B.A. from Ursinus College, where he majored in history and minored in film studies. His essay on film music appears in the Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism, and his honors thesis, "Rape Culture: Tools of Oppression," and Summer Fellows paper, "The Rise of Political Factions in the United States: 1789-1785," are available at https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu.