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WRITE ON!
Each writer has a different approach
to the craft of writing. For me, the creative process is as essential as taking my next breath. I write
to understand - to make sense of my experiences, and to explore life's mandala through the perspectives of "reality" and "imagination."
I often traced the chrome letters on my
family's Philco refrigerator with my forefinger, eager to learn to read at ages three and four. Though quick with
the alphabet, I puzzled over sounding out "the" in first grade. With dogged patience I soon blasted
past the obstacles of ADD and inexperience
and became an avid reader.
I began writing bad poetry at age
ten, and won a Christmas theme contest with a poem titled "1995" during my junior year of high school in 1969. In
my early twenties, I published a few more poems in anthologies.
Then life got in the way of creativity,
and I shared little of my work until I acquired a computer while completing courses in Anthropology with emphasis
in Museum Studies and Humanities at Prescott
College (BA 1999).
The computer age has given "closet" writers the
tools to become freewheeling cyber show-offs - exploring transformation is a major theme in my work. I'm dancing
out of the drawer with glee to visit you on screen and printed page!
My poetry, short stories, feature articles, and
creative nonfiction essays are published in a variety of anthologies, journals, and Web sites. My work-in-progress
includes a novel, a group of linked nature essays, flash fiction, and children's picture book fiction and nonfiction.
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Recent Publications
Children's Fiction and Nonfiction
Coming Soon! - LEWIS
AND CLARK
Great Explorers of the World Series
StoryBox Online Library
October 2006
New Leaders for New Schools
School test assessments, 2007
Short Fiction
Jerry Jazz Musician
November 2008
Subtle Edens
London: Elastic Press
November 2008
Nonfiction
Print edition, September 2007
November 2007
Poetry
"I'VE GOT SO MUCH THINGS TO SAY RIGHT NOW"
Honorable Mention
DOGGY PRAYER
& A GOODBYE PRAYER
Prayers, Prose, and Prayers
Celebrating Our Relationship with Dogs
June Cotner, Ed.
New World Library, October 2008
SECOND COMING OF LOVE
December monthly theme winner
Sandcutters, Winter 2007
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