Lynne Thompson was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, by parents born in the Windward Islands, West Indies. Her poetry has been or will be published in Margie, Poetry International, Indiana Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Her first full-length manuscript of poems, Beg No Pardon, won the 2007 Perugia Press Book Award and the 2008 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer Award (Poetry).