Bio: |
I'm at the foot of the Continental Divide, in a town stripped of its gold, and its lead. Mule deer meander through town, browsing unguarded gardens and shrubs. The Salmon river attracts myriad birds. Each morning, the heron fly from their rookery to downstream fishing grounds. The dippers and pigeons line up along streams. Robins and starlings chase one another away from deer pies loaded with insects. Lazuli buntings and Cedar waxwings visit the flowering trees. By afternoon, the osprey lunge for steelhead or salmon and the golden eagles gain loft to hunt across the valley. In the evening, the herons return home. The turkey vultures whirl overhead, searching for fresh roadkill. The turtle dove announces itself over, and over, and over again. All day a girl rides her bicycle up and down the alley, past the porch. Soon, the tourists will come.
I'm from Toledo, Ohio. I serve as Red Bird Chapbooks' Broadside Series Coordinator--do submit your work--and as a work-for-hire author. Upcoming children's books published by Norwood House Press and by The Child's World.
Work published in Sleet magazine's Spring 2011 edition; Flurry 3, 2010; Rock, Paper, Scissors 2010, 2009; and What Light poetry series 2005 through MNArtists.org. In 2009 and 2010, served on editorial board for RPS, and 2009 Water~Stone Review. |
