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 my literary career writing bad poetry
in Des Moines, Iowa at age ten. After working as a grocery clerk, nursing assistant and home health aide, a variety of clerical
and secretarial positions, city bus driver, museum aide, and substitute teacher, all while attending classes and raising
a family, fiddling with the fine art of writing looked like a suitable diversion.
In my former life, I lived in Chino Valley,
Arizona on a star-studded acre in a juniper forest with my two teens, a fat Buddha cat, two wily ferrets and a loyal pooch,
where I earned a BA from Prescott College in Anthropology with emphasis in Museum Studies (1999). My life has taken a
new turn - I'm currently studying in a postgraduate creative writing program at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, petless
but enjoying life with my teens on a magical forested ridge above Cardigan Bay in beautiful County Ceredigion.
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Recent Publications
Children's Fiction and Nonfiction
Coming Soon! -
LEWIS AND CLARK
Great Explorers of the World Series
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
2008 Writing Contest
DOGGY PRAYER
& A GOODBYE PRAYER
Celebrating Our Relationship with Dogs
June Cotner, Ed.
New World Library, October 2008
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