BIO
My books are all published by Blade of Grass Press, a self-publishing adventure–
A Single Drop Was Full: erasure poetry (2022) Enter Shadow, Enter Light: late-life poems (2021) After Paul Celan: Journey to the Turning Word (2020) Reflections Caught Leaping: poetry and related prose (2020) Burst Thought Shall Show Its Root (2019) Through the Fracture in the I: Erasure Poetry (2018) The Bright Logic of Wilma Schuh: a novel (2017) End into Opening: six sestinas and their humble companion poems (2014) Echoes and Links: poems (2013) Return to a Meadow: a novel (2012) All the Difference: poems of unconventional motherhood (2012) Green Surprise of Passion: Writings of a Trauma Therapist (1998) My poetry and prose have appeared in these journals: 2River View Conditions The Ekphrastic Review Feminist Studies The Ghazal Page h.o.m.e. Words Narramissic Notebook Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Volume 23, Number 1 (Special Issue: "Mothering from the Margins") Puckerbrush Review Seems Sinister Wisdom Sun Dog: the Southeast Review The Cafe Review Tipton Poetry Journal Unlost Journal My prose and poetry are included in these collections: A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis Balancing Act 2: An Anthology of Poems by 50 Maine Women Lesbians at Mid-life: the Creative Transition Mothers Who Leave: the myth of women without their children Naming: poems by 8 women (under the name Shirley Starkweather) North by Northeast: New Short Fiction by Writers from Maine and New England Women in Culture: a Women's Studies Anthology |
Here, post-nursery school, post-kindergarten, is my formal education:
Cathedral Grade School, Winona, Minnesota Cotter High School, Winona, Minnesota College of St. Teresa, Winona, Minnesota — B.A. in English and Philosophy Chicago Public Schools Practical Nursing Program — Licensed Practical Nurse The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California — M.A. in Clinical Psychology University of Maine at Orono — M.A. in English & Creative Writing It would of course take years to tell of the non-formal education life has given me. Suffice to say: it has been and continues to be amazing. I was born in Washington, D.C. in 1942. I am a retired psychotherapist and live in Prospect, Maine with my spouse, Virginia Holmes. |