The Ring

About Lynne Hjelmgaard

Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in 1951 in New York city and moved to Denmark in 1971. She studied at the Aarhus Art Academy and graduated from FrA bel Seminarium in Copenhagen. She taught Creative Art for children in various schools and institutions before becoming a full time sailor. As a result of crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat with her husband she wrote poems that were later published in the chapbook Distance Through the Water in 2002. Her first collection Manhattan Sonnets was published in 2003. Lynne Hjelmgaard divides her time between London and Copenhagen.