Phibby Venable's work has been published in 2River, Poetrybay,
Southern Ocean Review, Sow's Ear, Voices, the Appalachian
Journal and various other national & international magazines.
Two chapbooks: On White Top, published by Poetrybay, George
Wallace, editor, and Indian Wind Song by People Inc. The proceeds of
Indian Wind Song were used to help low income Appalachian families with indoor plumbing and home
Biography:
Phibby Venable's work has been published in 2River, Poetrybay,
Southern Ocean Review, Sow's Ear, Voices, the Appalachian
Journal and various other national & international magazines.
Phibby’s Writing:
Three chapbooks: What I Saw Beautiful, On White Top, and Indian Wind Song.
Four poetry books: Blue Cold Morning, Blue Water Poems,
There Is A White Girl, & Blue Cold Morning – First Collection Of Poems,
Blue Water Poems, The Wind Is My Wine, My Life On Little River,
Bones of a Generous Woman, and one book of short stories, Dry Branch Hollow.
Venable won the Virginia Water Project Award, and was nominated for the governor’s award for Volunteer Excellence.
She is active in animal rescue.
Venable was nominated by Goldfish Press for the Pushcart Prize
in 2009, and by Quill and Parchment Press in 2012.
Her work appears in several anthologies:
The Kaleidoscope Chronicles Poetry in Three Voices
by Phibby Venable, Emily Burns, Sel Whiteley
In Our Own Words, by Marlow Peerse Weaver
The Battered Suitcase, May 2009 and
Travelin’ Music, A Poetic Tribute to Woody Guthrie,
Dorothy Alexander, editor.
