Nan Lundeen is a poet, an author, and an award-winning journalist.
Nan’s books, Moo of Writing: how to milk your potential and Black Dirt Days: poems as memoir, were finalists in national indie book awards.
Her poetry has appeared in The RavensPerch, Steam Ticket, Atlanta Review, Connecticut River Review, the College of Charleston’s Illuminations, The Petigru Review, Happiness Holding Tank, patheos.com/blogs/naturessacredjourney/, inkpantry.com, feminismandreligion.com, the University of South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the anthology Inner Lives, among others, her fiction in Evening Street Review. She was a finalist in the Yemassee Literary Journal’s 2010 Pocataligo poetry contest. The Morris Museum of Art at Augusta, GA, awarded her poem “The Catawba” honorable mention in the 2012 Porter Fleming Literary Competition. “The Catawba” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2014. Her poetry took Honorable Mention in Concrete Wolf’s 2016 chapbook competition.
Her journalism has been published in the Detroit News, the Grand Rapids Press, the Connecticut Post, The Greenville News, and others. She took a Hoosier State Press Association first-place community service award for a series of editorials on school reorganization and a UPI first place team spot news award for coverage of a construction disaster in Connecticut.
Nan’s articles on writing have appeared in U.K.’s Writing Magazine, The Paddock Review, femalefirst.co.uk and The Quill, published by the South Carolina Writers’ Workshop.
She holds a bachelor’s in English and a master’s in communications from Western Michigan University. She and her husband, freelance photographer Ron DeKett, live in rural southwestern Michigan among deer, wild turkey, hummingbirds, and wildflowers.
Her favorite literary character is the Little Prince who said, “One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”