Lindsay Tuggle was awarded her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2010, for a dissertation on nineteenth-century American poetry.
In 2015, her poem 'asylum, pageantry,' was highly commended in the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. Her work has been published by Contrapasso, HEAT, Mascara, and Rabbit, among others. In 2014, selections from 'An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy' were shortlisted for the Queensland Writers Festival's Val Vallis Award for Poetry and longlisted for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize. In 2009, 'Anamnesis' won second prize in the Val Vallis Award.
In addition to poems published in journals (indexed here), she has also been commissioned to contribute a number of works to projects for the Red Room Company in Sydney, including Dust Poems (2009), to which she contributed 'Calenture'; Papercuts (2010), to which she contributed 'The Elephant's Nostalgia'; and Unlocked (2010), to which she contributed 'The Northern Road'.
In 2015, she was working on a collection of elegies titled Calenture.