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Sigrun Lane

Sigrun Susan Lane is a poet from Seattle Washington. After a successful career in business, she returned to her initial passion: to be a writer. She began writing poetry with Nelson and Beth Bentley and publishing poems in regional and national journals such as the Crab Creek Review and The Seattle Review. She’s won prizes for her poems from the Seattle Arts Commission and the King County Arts Commission.

Lane has published three chapbooks; Little Bones and SALT from Goldfish Press and Drive from Finishing Line Press. SALT won the Josephine Miles award “for excellence in poetry” in 2020. Sigrun Susan is of Icelandic descent and often draws on her family’s history in her poems, stories of immigrants and of the “old country” and of its history.