A. Lyn Carol has won multiple contests including the Redivider Blurred Genre contest judged by Jerald Walker, the Redivider Beacon Street Prize in Nonfiction judged by Ned Stuckey-French, and The Wind Prize for Windmill: The Hofstra Journal of Literature & Art. In addition to these publications, her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Hippocampus, SMITH Magazine, and Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers. She is a two-time featured reader at AWP and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She holds an MFA from Butler University.