Lynda La Rocca is a New York City-born poet and freelance writer who has also worked as a reporter for the Asbury Park (NJ) Press and a teaching assistant at Colorado Mountain College in Leadville, Colorado.

Her four poetry chapbooks include The Stillness Between (2009, Pudding House Publications), Spiral (2012, Liquid Light Press), and Unbroken (2023, Kelsay Books); her individual poems have appeared in such publications as The New York Quarterly; THINK: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction, and Essays; Stone Gathering: A Reader; and Encore (National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Inc.).

Lynda was the 2020 winner in the poetry category of the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, a National League of American Pen Women arts-outreach program, and a “Top-Four” winner in the 2021 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest.

She lives in Salida, Colorado, with her writer-photographer husband Steve Voynick.