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Books / Anthologies

Almost Touching: A Reader for Women and Men, anthology, Plain View Press, 1966
In the Curve of Space and Time, poetry chapbook first place winner in Urban Midwest issue of Heartlands Today, 1966
A Postcard of a Naked Man, poetry chapbook, March Street Press, 2003
Dear Jim, poetry chapbook, Main Street Rag, 2003
Security, poetry chapbook, March Street Press, 2010
In the Context of Love, novel, Buddhapuss Ink, 2015
Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations that Changed Their Lives, anthology, McFarland Publishing, 2018
Gordy and the Ghost Crab, children’s picture book, Writers’ Coffee Bar Press, 2020
Sleepwalker, poetry chapbook, Finishing Line Press, 2023

SHORT STORIES/PROSE

A Twist of Noir
Bartleby Snopes
Cleansheets
Free Verse
Frenzy: 
Cleis Press Anthology
Monkey Bicycle
Pop Fic Review

Stonecoast Review
Strut (Detroit Magazine)

Grateful acknowledgment from the author to the editors of the literary journals, magazines and anthologies in which the following poems and stories first appeared:

POETRY

Buffalo Bones
Call & Response 3: Poets and Artists in Dialogue
Celebrities in Disgrace

Clackamas Literary Review
Concrete Wolf
Controlled Burn
Curious Rooms
Driftwood Review

Dunes Review
Edge City Review
Free Focus
Free Verse
Heartlands
Into the Teeth of the Wind
Kumquat Meringue

The MacGuffin
Main Street Rag
Maverick Press
Mobius: A Journal of Social Change
Mom Egg Review
Muddy River Poetry Review

New Ohio Review
Now Here Nowhere

Paterson Literary Review
Poetry Motel

Peninsula Poets
Permafrost

Prairie Schooner
Rattle
Slipstream
Spoon River Poetry Review
Stray Dog
Thema
Touchstone Literary Review
Wayne Literary Review
White Pelican Review

MISCELLANEOUS ON THE WEB

Celebrities in Disgrace:  “My Horrible Celebrity Crush”
Celebrities in Disgrace: “Linda + Jim” [Morrison]; Interview on Obsessions
Celebrities in Disgrace  “Holy Liberace” and “Popular Art in America”

ARTWORK

CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
The MacGuffin, Cover and art inside
Tar Wolf
From East to West
Peninsula Poets
Flow Magazine

ESSAYS

Cleveland Plain Dealer
MetroParent Magazine
: Cutting: Why Teens Hurt Themselves; Domestic Violence: Kids: The Secondary Victims; Parents’ Guide to School: “My Teacher Doesn’t Like Me”
Rocky Parenting: Finding Perspective in the Loss of a Son

AWARDS

Julia Darling Poetry Prize Finalist, Kallisto Press: “Solo Suite”
USA Book News Best Book Award Finalist for In the Context of Love
Readers Favorite Book Award Finalist for In the Context of Love
Sarton Women’s Fiction Book Award Finalist for In the Context of Love
Eric Hoffer Commercial Fiction Finalist Award for In the Context of Love
New Apple Award for Excellence Official Selection for In the Context of Love
National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Hon. Mention: “Nightly Grind”
Heartlands, Poetry Chapbook Award, 1st place
Inkwell Poetry Contest, Finalist, Judge Billy Collins: “What Every Mother Hopes For”
Pushcart Prize Nomination: “Leaving Carolina”
Sow’s Ear Review Chapbook Contest, Finalist
Maryland State Lit & Poetry Society Chapbook Contest, Hon. Mention
Concrete Wolf Finalist, Chapbook Contest
Redgreen Press, Finalist, Chapbook Contest
Bone & Flesh, Finalist, Chapbook Contest
Frith Press, Finalist, Chapbook Contest
Black Lawrence Press, Semi-Finalist, Chapbook Contest

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Award- winning writer, poet & artist. Cynical optimist. Super klutz. Corgi fan. Author of two novels, a children's picture book, and five poetry chapbooks. More here.

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