Lynne Martin Bowman was The Comstock Review's 2009 Jesse Bryce Niles National Chapbook Contest Winner for her chapbook Water Never Sleeps published in 2011. In 2012, she was first runner-up for the Crab Orchard Review's Poetry Prize. In addition, she was The Sonora Review's Poetry Prize Winner, received honorable mention in the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, and was twice an Emily Dickinson Award finalist. Her work has appeared in the Southern Poetry Review, The Mississippi Review, and The International Poetry Review, among others.