Lynne Barnes

Lynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to HAIR, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969, two years after the Summer of Love. She was part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She is a former psych nurse and librarian. Her beloved partner, Carole, created the cover art for her book.

FALLING INTO FLOWERS was the recipient of the 2017 Rainbow Award for Best Gay and Lesbian Poetry, a finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award, and received Honorable Mention in both the “Gay” and the “Poetry” categories for the 2018 San Francisco Book Festival.