Lacy Snapp is a poet, professor, and woodworking artist in East Tennessee where they plan university and community-based literary events, and run their small business, Luna’s Woodcraft. They serve as the Poetry Co-Editor of Appalachian Places and a board member of the Johnson City Poets Collective. In 2025, they were awarded the inaugural Tammy “Tambone” Clemons Visionary Award from the Appalachian Studies Association for their dedication to storytelling and activism that uplifts Appalachian voices. Their first chapbook, Shadows on Wood, was published in 2021 (Finishing Line Press). Their work (poetry, nonfiction, interviews, and book reviews) appears in About Place Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Appalachian Journal, Still: The Journal, Salvation South, Tupelo Quarterly, Hunger Mountain Review, Cutthroat, and multiple Women of Appalachia Project’s Women Speak anthologies, among others.

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