PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Welkie
I am a poet, mother, wife, sometime scholar, former college professor, and part-time desert rancher, who now lives in the Los Angeles basin. I also like to collect things--green parrot feathers, paintings with letters in them, vintage postcards, old shoe-shine stands. I love to read other people's poems. I am an avid member of several online communities and keep up with friends (many of whom regrettably remain only virtual) via blogs and Facebook.
Join me on my blog (LINK ABOVE RIGHT) as I think about poetry--mine and others--and just generally document my writing life.
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Click here to be directed to my blog: Selvage
I talk about the chapbook, O Dear Deer,, in two new online essays, at Pasadena Daily Photo's Guest Author Series, and at Her Circle E-Zine's Writer's Blog.
The poet Laura Cherry and I interviewed each other as part of Boxcar Poetry Review's "First Book Author" series (Summer 2011 edition).
I was mentioned in the Hometown Pasadena news story about the May Day 2010 open house at Red Hen Press.
Current ProjectsO Dear Deer,
A chapbook out from Squall Publishing (July 1, 2011), this text won the Eudaimonia Poetry Review Chapbook Prize. It was initially inspired by the experience of serving on an L.A. County Superior Court jury in 2009. An extended meditation on making choices, it imagines the other branches of the other paths we could be walking, even now. Poems from this collection have appeared in the Horse Less Review, the Eudaimonia Poetry Review, and The Driftwood Review.
The judge of the Eudaimonia Review Prize, Evan J. Peterson, said this about O Dear Deer, : "a stunningly rendered place of violent simplicity. It bewilders me while asking me to be wilder...a hypnotic landscape of image rhyme that is better than surreal--surrealism tries too hard. This is the dream space, the real dream space, and it feels effortlessly accurate. This collection shaves slivers from my bones."
In Defense of Objects My first full-length poetry collection won the 2009 Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was published by Bear Star Press in Fall 2009. It contains poems written between 1999 and 2008. Some of those appeared in such journals as Diner, Harpur Palate, North American Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Alligator Juniper, and GSU Review.
Eve in L.A.This chapbook (in progress) is spoken in the voice of a modern-day Eve and addresses what it means to inhabit the American West, particularly the city of Los Angeles. Poems from this collection have been published in the L.A. Review, Little Patuxent Review, and The Antigonish Review.
Subject to SearchFrom object to subject in this second full-length collection of poems, currently in progress.
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