I am a writer and editor. I am happily retired from Hallmark cards, where I worked for 22 years, the last 9 as director of the creative writing studio. I grew up on Long Island, New York and went to college at Binghamton University, where I studied British, American and Canadian literature and South American magical realism and earned a master’s degree in creative writing. In 2021 I moved from Lenexa, KS to Candia, NH to live closer to my family and the ocean.
My work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Moon City Review, I-70 Review, Bellevue Poetry Review, Stone Canoe, The Comstock Review and many other print and online journals and anthologies.
I am the author of a full-length poetry collection, After All (FutureCycle Press, 2018), which was a a runner-up for the 2018 Hefner-Heitz Kansas Book Award and first runner-up for the 2019 Thorpe-Menn award for literary excellence. My chapbook, Where the World Begins, was published in 2015. It is available from Finishing Line Press.
For fun, I travel, often to photography workshops. Before I relocated, I photographed rescue cats for the KIttyCityKansas website and wrote book club discussion guides for MacMillan Publishing.
My work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, The Moon City Review, I-70 Review, Bellevue Poetry Review, Stone Canoe, The Comstock Review and many other print and online journals and anthologies.
I am the author of a full-length poetry collection, After All (FutureCycle Press, 2018), which was a a runner-up for the 2018 Hefner-Heitz Kansas Book Award and first runner-up for the 2019 Thorpe-Menn award for literary excellence. My chapbook, Where the World Begins, was published in 2015. It is available from Finishing Line Press.
For fun, I travel, often to photography workshops. Before I relocated, I photographed rescue cats for the KIttyCityKansas website and wrote book club discussion guides for MacMillan Publishing.
Partial List of Publications and Awards
Books
2018, After All, FutureCycle Press; First runner up, 2019 Thorpe Menn Award
Honorable mention, 2018 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award
2015, Where the World Begins, (chapbook) Finishing Line Press
Anthologies
Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 (North Sea Poetry Scene Press, forthcoming)
Purrfect Poems, fundraiser for Cat's Protection, the UKs largest feline welfare charity, (Dream Well Writing, Ltd, 2020)
Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Balkan Press, 2017)
Gimme Your Lunch Money: Heartland Poets Speak Out against Bullies (Paladin Contemporaries, 2016)
New Poetry from the Midwest (New American Press, 2014)
Best of the Net (Sundress Publications, 2008)
Poems
10x3, “Chocolate Ice Cream Cone”
American Journal of Poetry, “A Reckoning,” “A Kansas Story,” “Family Photograph,” “In Vino Veritas”
Apple Valley Review, “Come Inside,” “Company at Christmas,” “Thanksgiving,” “The Story”
Atlanta Review, “Anne Frank’s Cat”
Atlas & Alice, "The Garden"
Bellevue Literary Review, “Stage Four, Summer,” “Advent”
Blood Lotus Review, “Hunger”
Blood Orange Review, “Before,” “Times Square”
Breakwater Review, “Waking in My Father’s Bed”
Bryant Literary Review, “Gunn Hill”
Comstock Review, “The Women in the Kitchen,” “Drop a Knife, Somebody’s Coming,” “Maybe This World,” “Travel,” “A Hole in the Roof,” “The Bakers,” “Wind and Words”
Escape into Life, “Adam and Eve,” “How It Rained in Barcelona,” “Waikiki,” “Night Knitting,” “Lady of the House,” “Mother Song,” “The Death of Romance,” “The Long Night Makes of Him a Coyote”
Freshwater, “If She Could Be Found,” “The Cherry Festival”
Green Hills Literary Lantern, “A Birthday”
I-70 Review, “How to Shoot a Panorama,” “A Few Years Before the Divorce,” “Driving Home from St. Louis After a Funeral,” “What Happened in Highland,” “The Middle”
Inkwell, “Phone Call from a Movie Set Somewhere in Kansas,” “Understanding”
Lucid Stone, “Light,” “Very Good at Sleeping”
Midwest Quarterly, “Where They Slept”
Moon City Review, “Polly’s Mother Sang Opera,” “Overdue”
Naugatuck River Review, “Married,” “Another Story”
Off the Coast, “Squirrel Soup”
Pedestal Magazine, “Shawnee Pasture”
Poem, “Making, Keeping,” “Iowa Bride”
poemeleon, “Kiss”
Poetry Bay, “Strange Women”
Poet's Touchstone, "World Made of Miracles"
Potpourri, “Cardinal Song”
qarrtsiluni: “In the Middle of the Night”
Red River Review, “Mary Gets Going”
RE:AL, “Boys Who Cut the Legs Off Box Turtles,” “What Is Love?”
Schuylkill Valley Journal, “I Speak at My Mother’s Funeral”
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, “How do you lose,” “First Communion Day,” “Dreams of Dead Women”
South 85, “Homecoming”
Spoon River Poetry Review, “Soup,” “Inside the Tidy House of Love”
Stone Canoe, “To Anne Sexton”
Stonecoast Review, “What to Feed a Ghost”
Typehouse, “Cleaning Up After the Last Supper”
Wild Goose, “His Truck”
Short Fiction
Big Toe Review, “Fog,” “Trust”
The Indiana Review, “Bonding”
MSS, “The Ways of Man
Libretto, We, the Unknown, oratorio premiered by the Heartland Men’s Chorus, Kansas City, MO (co-author)
Prizes
2019, first prize, Breaking Free Writing Contest, Johnson County (KS) Library, for “Congolese Refugee Family Watches Fireworks for the First Time”
2013, first prize, Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey competition, for “Drop A Knife, Somebody’s Coming”
2012, runner-up Poets and Writers’ Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award.
2009, Freshwater editors' prize, for “If She Could Be Found”
Books
2018, After All, FutureCycle Press; First runner up, 2019 Thorpe Menn Award
Honorable mention, 2018 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award
2015, Where the World Begins, (chapbook) Finishing Line Press
Anthologies
Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 (North Sea Poetry Scene Press, forthcoming)
Purrfect Poems, fundraiser for Cat's Protection, the UKs largest feline welfare charity, (Dream Well Writing, Ltd, 2020)
Kansas Time+Place: An Anthology of Heartland Poetry (Balkan Press, 2017)
Gimme Your Lunch Money: Heartland Poets Speak Out against Bullies (Paladin Contemporaries, 2016)
New Poetry from the Midwest (New American Press, 2014)
Best of the Net (Sundress Publications, 2008)
Poems
10x3, “Chocolate Ice Cream Cone”
American Journal of Poetry, “A Reckoning,” “A Kansas Story,” “Family Photograph,” “In Vino Veritas”
Apple Valley Review, “Come Inside,” “Company at Christmas,” “Thanksgiving,” “The Story”
Atlanta Review, “Anne Frank’s Cat”
Atlas & Alice, "The Garden"
Bellevue Literary Review, “Stage Four, Summer,” “Advent”
Blood Lotus Review, “Hunger”
Blood Orange Review, “Before,” “Times Square”
Breakwater Review, “Waking in My Father’s Bed”
Bryant Literary Review, “Gunn Hill”
Comstock Review, “The Women in the Kitchen,” “Drop a Knife, Somebody’s Coming,” “Maybe This World,” “Travel,” “A Hole in the Roof,” “The Bakers,” “Wind and Words”
Escape into Life, “Adam and Eve,” “How It Rained in Barcelona,” “Waikiki,” “Night Knitting,” “Lady of the House,” “Mother Song,” “The Death of Romance,” “The Long Night Makes of Him a Coyote”
Freshwater, “If She Could Be Found,” “The Cherry Festival”
Green Hills Literary Lantern, “A Birthday”
I-70 Review, “How to Shoot a Panorama,” “A Few Years Before the Divorce,” “Driving Home from St. Louis After a Funeral,” “What Happened in Highland,” “The Middle”
Inkwell, “Phone Call from a Movie Set Somewhere in Kansas,” “Understanding”
Lucid Stone, “Light,” “Very Good at Sleeping”
Midwest Quarterly, “Where They Slept”
Moon City Review, “Polly’s Mother Sang Opera,” “Overdue”
Naugatuck River Review, “Married,” “Another Story”
Off the Coast, “Squirrel Soup”
Pedestal Magazine, “Shawnee Pasture”
Poem, “Making, Keeping,” “Iowa Bride”
poemeleon, “Kiss”
Poetry Bay, “Strange Women”
Poet's Touchstone, "World Made of Miracles"
Potpourri, “Cardinal Song”
qarrtsiluni: “In the Middle of the Night”
Red River Review, “Mary Gets Going”
RE:AL, “Boys Who Cut the Legs Off Box Turtles,” “What Is Love?”
Schuylkill Valley Journal, “I Speak at My Mother’s Funeral”
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, “How do you lose,” “First Communion Day,” “Dreams of Dead Women”
South 85, “Homecoming”
Spoon River Poetry Review, “Soup,” “Inside the Tidy House of Love”
Stone Canoe, “To Anne Sexton”
Stonecoast Review, “What to Feed a Ghost”
Typehouse, “Cleaning Up After the Last Supper”
Wild Goose, “His Truck”
Short Fiction
Big Toe Review, “Fog,” “Trust”
The Indiana Review, “Bonding”
MSS, “The Ways of Man
Libretto, We, the Unknown, oratorio premiered by the Heartland Men’s Chorus, Kansas City, MO (co-author)
Prizes
2019, first prize, Breaking Free Writing Contest, Johnson County (KS) Library, for “Congolese Refugee Family Watches Fireworks for the First Time”
2013, first prize, Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey competition, for “Drop A Knife, Somebody’s Coming”
2012, runner-up Poets and Writers’ Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award.
2009, Freshwater editors' prize, for “If She Could Be Found”
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