Lydia Renfro
Author & Poet
ABOUT
Lydia Renfro holds an MFA from Adelphi University and is the recipient of the Donald Everett Axinn Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared in Okie Bookcast's Behind the Rain Poetry Anthology, Litro Magazine USA, Level Land Anthology, Red Fern Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Lung Deep Country is forthcoming from MOONLOVE Press (2026). Raised on the Great Plains of Oklahoma, Lydia is currently fiction editor for table//FEAST Literary Magazine and lives in Colorado with her dog.
Books
Lung Deep Country
Forthcoming MOONLOVE Press, 2026
Lamar University Literary Press, 2022
Selected Poetry
In the Garden on Lowell Street (Okie Bookcast)
At the Hamam in Beyoğlu with Nadine, Pascha Celebrations in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Airport Bound on a Business Trip (Penelle Magazine)
Opal Jewelry and Beckoning Bread (WordCity Monthly)
Tulips by Göztepe Metro Station, To the Green-Eyed Musician in the Baseball Cap (Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine)
Crumbs of Body: A Psalm of Siblinghood, What I Would Say to the Girl in the Hand-Me-Down Sadie Oxford Shoes (Okie Bookcast)
In July It's Easier to Dream (Witches Mag)
On the Banks of the Canadian (Okie Bookcast)
Short Fiction & Essays
In the Event You Find Yourself in This Situation
Litro Magazine USA
On Tea Leaves and Plane Tickets
Siblini Journal
Greetings From
Forthcoming at The Brussels Review