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Lucy Oquaye | LexPoMo 2025

Bio for 2025

Lucy Oquaye is an essayist and poet residing in the horse capital of the world. She received her MFA from the University of Kentucky, where she won the Betsy Owen Combs Recruitment Scholarship in 2021 and the MFA Award in Creative Nonfiction in 2022.
In 2023, she won Fourth Genre’s Multimedia Essay contest for her essay exploring her choices in relationships in the form of a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game. Her poem “Preparing for Hibernation” was selected as a winner for the 2024 Kentucky Monthly Penned contest.
In 2025, Lucy was awarded an Artist Enrichment grant from the Kentucky Womens Foundation to work on her memoir about her experiences with domestic violence. Her work has been published in Georgia Review, Vast Chasm, Deep Overstock, The Big Windows Review, and others. She serves as a board member for the Kentucky State Poetry Society.

Poems Submitted This Year:

June 03, 2025 unpolished
June 04, 2025 Farmers Market
June 05, 2025 Thoughts from the Backyard

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