Lennie Hay grew up in the Midwest living between two cultures—Chinese immigrants and Ukrainian German farmers. She now lives half of the year on the banks of the Ohio River in Southern Indiana and half of the year in Indian Shores, Florida. She earned her undergraduate degree in English from the University of Minnesota, master’s and doctorate degrees in education
from the University of Louisville and an MFA in poetry from Spalding University. For more than 40 years, Lennie worked as a teacher, principal, district leader and educational consultant.
 She grew up studying piano and pipe organ and indulges her love of jazz and classical music whenever and wherever possible. Lennie’s work has been published in various regional, national and international print and online journals such as The Louisville Review, Accents, Shanghai Literary Review, The Heartland Review, City Lights e Magazine among others. Additionally, her work was included in a 2019 literary anthology, Boom and will appear this
 summer in the Florida Bards Poetry Anthology.