Lynda La Rocca

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Lynda La Rocca was born in New York City, grew up in northern New Jersey, and is a 1975 magna cum laude graduate of Georgian Court College (now Georgian Court University), Lakewood, New Jersey.  A former journalist for the Asbury Park (NJ) Press, she is currently a full-time freelance writer.  During the school year, Lynda also works part-time as a teaching assistant in the Spanish-language laboratory at the Timberline Campus of Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, Colorado.

Lynda’s nonfiction articles, essays, and fiction have appeared in such publications as The Denver Post, The Pueblo Chieftain, America West Airlines Magazine, Woman’s World, Delta Sky, and Highlights for Children.  Her poetry has appeared in numerous state and national poetry-society anthologies along with such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Quarterly, Frogpond (Haiku Society of America), Colorado Central Magazine, U.S. Catholic, and Children’s Playmate.

Lynda’s first poetry chapbook, In the Shortness of My Days, was published in 1993 by New Spirit Press, New York.  Her second poetry chapbook, The Stillness Between, was published in 2009 by Pudding House Publications, Ohio. 

Since 2002, Lynda has been a member, and the secretary, of the Shavano Poets’ Society, a chapter of Columbine Poets Inc., Colorado’s state poetry society.  She is also a member of the Maine Poets Society; the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc.; and the Chaffee County (Colorado) Writers’ Exchange.  In 2005 and 2006, Lynda served on the organizing committee of Sparrows, Colorado’s largest performance poetry festival (presented annually in Salida from 2001-2007).  From 2004-2006, she also performed at Sparrows as a member of the River City Nomads, a group of five regionally known Colorado poets.  In 2009, the River City Nomads reunited for a performance at Words, an evening of readings held in Salida and presented by writers of poetry and prose from the Upper Arkansas River Valley and the San Luis Valley.

Since 2001, Lynda has lived in Twin Lakes, Colorado, with her husband, writer Steve Voynick, along with their dog Luz and ornate box turtle SunSpot.