Texans Lucy Griffith and Darlene Marwitz collaborate in SONGS OF THE OCOTILLO, mixing poetic and visual art that pays homage to the iconic and beloved plant of the Chihuahuan Desert.

LUCY GRIFFITH lives beside the Guadalupe River near Comfort, Texas. As a retired psychologist, she explored the imagined life of the Burro Lady of West Texas in her debut collection, We Make a Tiny Herd, earning both the Wrangler and Willa Prizes. Her love of ocotillos was birthed alongside her kinship with the Burro Lady.

Her second collection, Wingbeat Atlas, pairs her poems with images by wildlife photographer Ken Butler, to celebrate our citizens of the sky. The Place the Spiders Waved was released in 2024 by FlowerSong Press, and recognized as a Willa Finalist in Poetry. She’s been a Bread Loaf scholar, a Certified Master Naturalist and is known to stare at the river for long periods of time. Lucy can be reached at lucygriffithwriter@gmail.com and on IG @griffith_lucy.