Writer. Photographer. Artist.
Originally from Washington State, Lynn Thayer is a multidisciplinary artist living with chronic disability in Salida, CO. She holds a BA of Professional Photography from Brooks Institute of Photography. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bicoastal Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, Wild Roof Journal, Months to Years, and Tendon Magazine among others. Her first chapbook, ‘A Body Is Not an Omen’, was a finalist for Cathexis Northwest Press’s Unpublished Author Contest in 2025. Thayer was accepted into a residency at Vermont Studio Center in May/June of 2026, where she’ll be working on a full-length manuscript.
Acceptances & Publications
‘Spellbound’ | Bicoastal Review [Forthcoming]
‘Snow Globe’ | Cathexis Northwest Press, pg. 26
‘Pearl’ | Months to Years
‘Hamlet’, ‘Caesura’, ‘Viper’ | Tendon Magazine
‘In Memoriam’ | The Raven Review
‘Defect’ | Wild Roof Journal
‘The Tower’ | The Closed Eye Open
Accepted into Vermont Studio Center’s Spring Residency Program [May/June 2026]
Accepted into Lighthouse Writers Workshop Poetry Collective Program [2024-2025]
Accepted into Jane Hirshfield’s Advanced Poetry Workshop through Lighthouse Writers Workshop [June 2024]
Entanglement Theory
'Entanglement Theory' follows the complexity of an acute health scare while managing chronic disability and examines the interconnectedness between mental and physical health. Grounded in a deep sense of place, each location adding to the sense of complexity, we inhibit the growth of tender friendships bound by place and love, and, over the course of a year, experience those relationships crack and dissolve with the existential threat of mortality looming just outside the frame.
Current Projects
A Body Is Not an Omen
Is the future fixed when the present feels impossible? 'A Body Is Not an Omen' mixes moments of defeat and hope from a devastating loss of self after a chronic illness diagnosis and looks to chronicle the ways in which this loss impacts external connections, personal narratives and the circulatory thoughts that seem to rise like ghosts in the dark. Based loosely on the major arcana cards of tarot, 'A BODY IS NOT AN OMEN’ attempts to make sense of the spiritual when the physical is no longer known.
Artist Statement
Thayer’s words work to connect and capture the improbable and invisible through poetry, essay and experimental blending of literary genre. Her themes center around connectedness, unseen disability and the stories we collect and tell ourselves in order to cope, expand and survive. In photography, her preferred mediums summon the slower days of silver collodion or analog emulsion unless she’s traveling, capturing street photography with her favored Fuji F100V.