Lindsey Webb

Webb's research looks at experimental poetics, the history of technology, and the science and poetics of olfaction. She has a B.A. from Brigham Young University (2014), and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2017). In 2025, she earned a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Utah,^[1][3] where she was a Clarence Snow Memorial Fellow.^[4]

During her MFA, Webb served on the masthead of elsewhere magazine,^[5] and is now an editor for Thirdhand Books.^[6] Following her PhD in 2025, she now teaches Creative Writing at Grinnell College.^[3]

She has published work in such journals as Chicago Review,^[7] LitHub,^[8] and Denver Quarterly, and is the author of two poetry chapbooks and a full-length collection, Plat (Archway Editions, 2024). House, her debut chapbook from 2020, was the winner of the year's Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest.^[2] It is also one of the three parts of Plat.^[9] The work in House was praised for wrapping "itself around both lyric and philosophy".^[10] Her second chapbook, Perfumer's Organ, was published in 2023.^[11]

In 2023, she also collaborated with Wendy Wischer and John Lin on In Search of Blue Sky, a temporary public artwork "communicat[ing air quality] data to the general community by telling simple, and provocative statements about air and atmosphere".^[12]

Plat, Webb's debut collection published by Archway Editions in 2024, has been praised for its "muscular, charismatic" prose.^[13] The publication of Plat was complimented by the release of a tie-in perfume.^[11]

In a 2021 interview, writer and artist Nick Maione praised Webb for "embody[ing]" her poems.^[14]

Webb's debut Plat was named one of the best poetry books of 2024 by The New York Times, and a notable read at the 2025 Utah Book Awards for Poetry.^[15] In an interview, Webb called Plat "a house, haunted by the death of a close friend, trying to break the laws of physics in order to see her again",^[16][17] and Bear Reviews called the book an attempt to "make [Webb's] friend's death fit with the conception of heaven she's been taught."^[18] Writing for NYT, Elisa Gabbert praised it for "fascinating spatial sensibility" and Webb's architectural thinking,^[19] and likened her work to the early writing of the poet Jorie Graham.^[20] Writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Katherine Gibbel noted Plat for its "uncommon" and "unwavering faith".^[9] Rob McLennan praised Webb for the "extremely difficult" task of composing "a volume around grief without falling permanently into the subject matter".^[21]

• 2020: Finalist, Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize, for Plat^[22]
• 2020: Ghost Proposal Chapbook Contest, for House
• 2025: Utah Book Awards Notable Read for Poetry, Plat