BIO

My books are all published by Blade of Grass Press, a self-publishing adventure–
Feet upon the Verge: poems et cetera (2024)
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.