Long Beach Poetry is managed by Nancy Lynée Woo.

Nancy Lynée Woo is a poet and community organizer who has called Long Beach her home since 2011. She is deeply grateful to the Long Beach poetry community (and beyond) for welcoming her into the space so many years ago and she is delighted to be able to offer this community calendar.

Nancy received the Professional Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council for Long Beach in 2019 and the California Creative Corps fellowship in 2023. She was a 2015 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow. Her first book is called I’d Rather Be Lightning (Gasher Press 2023). Her work has been published in The Shore, Tupelo Quarterly, Stirring, Radar Poetry, and others. .

Nancy is the founder of the community-based poetry space Surprise the Line. She believes in the power of the arts to bring people together. She has an MFA from Antioch University LA. Find her cavorting around Long Beach (Tongva land) in California, and on social media @fancifulnance.

To get in contact, please email poetry.long.beach@gmail.com.