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JL Huffman [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Blue Ridge Mountains, NC
North Carolina US
Bio: 

The author JL Huffman is a former LPN who continued her medical education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and is now a retired Trauma Surgeon/ICU doctor. She is a prior medical editor of Northeast Florida Medicine and is published in the surgical literature [publish or perish]. 

She lives a full life as an avid world traveler and gardener. The author is exercising her muse and writing in diverse genres: poetry, memoir, and fiction. Her recent concentration has been haiku. However, she is currently working on the fourth draft of a post-apocalyptic novel.

Gives readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
https://twitter.com/JoanHuffmanMD
Born in: 
PA
Pennsylvania
Raised in: 
OH
Ohio
RSS feed: 
https://websites.godaddy.com/en-US/edito… [2]
Website: 
https://jlhuffman.com [3]
Prizes won: 

2023: Touchstone Award for Individual Poems Nomination by Editor Allyson Whipple, Haiku Girl Summer [copperhead]

2023: Touchstone Award for Individual Poems Nomination by Editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, Cold Moon Journal [contrail]

2021: Pushcart Prize Nomination (for Poetry) by Editor Roberta Beach Jacobson, Cold Moon Journal [ancient he-tortoise]

Identifies as: 
American

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jl_huffman

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jl_huffman [2] https://websites.godaddy.com/en-US/editor/6ac72a37-952e-494d-8101-9ece2807db47/37d7aefb-c967-45a3-864c-e92e5c658f60/preview [3] https://jlhuffman.com