Announcement

My new poetry collection Edge of Highway is slated for publication in Spring 2025.

Set against a backdrop of backroads, interstates, and nature’s seasonal shifts, the poems in Edge of Highway delve into how hours spent driving a long daily commute provide opportunities for self-reflection, reconciliation, and the sorting of emotional entanglements.

Check back for updates.

Readings

Reading: Saturday, November 16, 2024, 1PM
Bucks County Poet Laureate Celebration
Bucks County Community College, Newtown, PA

Reading, Thursday, November 14, 2024, 6PM
Newtown Book Shop, Newtown, PA

Reading, Sunday, November 10, 2024, 4PM, Featured reader with the New Hope Poets
New Hope Arts Center, New Hope, PA.

Reading: Sunday, November 3, 2024 , 2PM
with US1 Worksheets
Princeton Library

Reading: Saturday, October 5, 2024, 1PM, Special guest of the Forgotten Voices Poetry Group
Indian Valley Public Library, Telford, PA;

Reading: May 30, 2024, 7PM
Phillips Mills Literary Salon, New Hope, PA

Reading: Friday, January 26, 2024, 6PM with Mary Jo Lobello Jerome, Vasiliki Katsarou, and Joanne Leva. Open mic to follow.
Farley’s Bookstore, 44 South Main Street, New Hope, PA

Reading/Performance: Saturday, November 4, 7PM;
In Loving Memory: An Evening of Eclectic Acts
The Ice House, 56 River Street, Bethlehem, PA

Reading: Saturday, October 14, 2023, Time: 4PM
Common Place Reader, Yardley, PA

Reading: Thursday, October 5, 2023, 7PM
Bucks County Arts Council’s Literary Salon
Freeman Hall, Doylestown, PA

Reading: Saturday, July 22, 2023 with Mary Jo Lobello Jerome, Lynn Levin, and Nicole Steinberg
ArtWRKD, Newtown, PA

Four poets and four recently released books! I am so pleased to be celebrating the launch of my first collection, Make Space, along with these stellar poets, Mary Jo Lobello Jerome, Lynn Levin, and Nicole Steinberg who each have new releases of their own. Visit their websites to learn more about each poet and their new book(s).

Reading: June 20, 2023, 7PM
Phillips Mills Literary Salon, New Hope, PA

Book Release: June 6, 2023
Make Space (Finishing Line Press) is released.

Reading: February 17, 2023, 7PM
Newtown Library, Newtown PA

Reading: September 17, 2022
Peace Fair, Buckingham Friends, Solebury, PA

Poems

“Detour,” forthcoming, Thimble (print and online)

“The Sky Held Odd and White for Days After,” RockPaperPoem

“Exit,” US1Worksheets (print)

“Eastbound,” forthcoming, Amethyst Review

“Respite”; “Yield”; “U-Turn”, forthcoming, San Antonio Review

“Night,” the engine(idling

“Along the Towpath,” Eunoia Review

“Under the Perseid Meteor Shower,” “The Last Summer Before Everything,” and “The Flood That Year,” Eunoia Review

“Restoration”
Finalist, 2023 Julia Peterkin Literary Award in Poetry, South 85 Journal

“How to Be a Tomato” (reprint from the Atlanta Review)
“Poet’s Corner,” Bucks County Herald
September 21, 2023

”In a Moment”
Rattle, November 2022 Ekphrastic Challenge,
Editor’s Choice.

”How the wind will”
Heron Tree

”receiving”
Heron Tree

“At the kitchen table, maybe in the afternoon”
Hole in the Head Review

“Driving River Road in April”
Hyacinth Review

“Pulled from his bureau’s top drawer
and all a glimmer”
Cider Press Review

”After Lunch in Some Seaside Town”
Burningword Literary Journal

“There is a Mermaid in Aisle Seven”
A Certain Kind of Swagger: Poems from Christopher Bursk’s Poetry Masterclass (print / anthology)

“Heart Failure and the Sugars”
Finalist, 13th Annual
Narrative Poetry Contest,
Naugatuck River Review
(print)

"How to Be a Tomato"
Atlanta Review (print)

”Our City”
Ekphrastic Review

“Even though I will eventually tire”
Amethyst Review

"from the Commute, Mile 28:
Post Election Recollection, Year Two,"
formercactus

"Two Sisters Posing for the Camera
with Budd Lake Fading in the Distance,"
formercactus

”Letter to Stephen, Regarding that Night in April,”
Finalist in the 10th Annual
Narrative Poetry Contest,
Naugatuck River Review
(print)

“How Anxiety Interferes,”
POETiCA Review

“Regarding Matthew,”
POETiCA Review

“Ghosts,”
POETICA Review

"Near the End of Things, My Sister and I Visit Our Father,"
Naugatuck River Review (print)

"After the New Age Fair, "
Atlanta Review (print)

"On Sharing Carvel With Aunt Roneta,”
The Paterson Literary Review (print)

“Planting Garlic,”
ArtsBridge (print)

Awards & Recognitions

Runner-Up, 2024 Bucks County Poet Laureate Contest

Finalist, 2023 Julia Peterkin Literary Award in Poetry

Runner-Up, 2021 Bucks County Poet Laureate Contest

Finalist, 2021 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest

Finalist, 2019 Bucks County Poet Laureate Contest

Finalist, 2019 Naugatuck River Review Narrative Poetry Contest

Finalist, 2018 Bucks County Poet Laureate Contest

Other

Memoir
The Wise Woman Within

Fiction
The Drawer
RG

Blogs

The Great Blue Heron (On Writing & Craft)
for River Heron Review
(February 2018 - January 2023)

Black Yarn, Orange Moon
(December 2009 - December 2013)

Workshops

Due to an ongoing desire to focus on my own creative projects, I remain on hiatus and am not facilitating any new writing workshops nor taking on any new writing consultation projects.

Nonetheless, feel free to contact me with inquiries.

Books

Edge of Highway, forthcoming May 2025
Make Space (Finishing Line Press, 2023)