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Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

New York, NY

New York US

Bio:

My most recent collection is BRIGHT-EYED (Poets Wear Prada/2024), has been reviewed in MER (the Mom Egg blog); Compulsive Reader, Necromancy Doesn't Pay; Tears in the Fence. THAT STRAPLESS BRA IN HEAVEN (Kelsay Books) was reviewed on the sites Constant Reader; Necromancy Doesn't Pay; and Heavy Feather Review); GEOGRAPHIES OF SOUL AND TAFFETA (Indolent Books/2016: reviewed in Pleiades; The Bind; decomP; The Daily Art Source); and THE FUTURE IS HAPPY (BlazeVOX/2014: reviewed in American Book Review and elsewhere). I've taught at Pace, Fordham University, in the CUNY system, and at Antioch/Seattle (for four years in the reading lab). My MFA in Fiction is from Sarah Lawrence College. My body is in New York. My imagination roams.
I help organize the annual Alternative New York Poetry Extravaganza, an all-day event; and have organized other readings which do not last 10 hours.

I work as an independent editor. Genres I have worked on include fiction, nonfiction (including local histories, family memoirs, autobiography, and a few off-the-boardhe author determines the specifics. If greenlit I help with development, organization, do a thorough copyedit of most anything with words: novels, nonfiction books, and poetry collections. I offer suggestions on phrasing and organization, highlight inconsistencies, and correct simple errors. Basically, if I see something I say something. Hmmm. Contact me for more information.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Favorite authors:

James Baldwin, Diane Seuss, Claudia Rankine, Anne Carson, Jonathan Dee, Mina Loy, Daphne du Maurier, Cornelius Eady, Alison Hedge Coke, Pessoa, and an infinitude of others, including the old ones from way back.

Born in:

Port Washington, NY

New York

Raised in:

Los Angeles, CA

California

RSS feed:

https://www.facebook.com/farstargirl [2]

Website:

https://my3000lovingarms.blogspot.com [3]

Prizes won:

Poetry: "California Holding": Zocalo Public Square Poets of Place competition, 2025: Honorable Mention.

Poetry: " " First Place in Cristol Cooper competition judged by Helen Losse, Poetry Editor for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and Associate Editor for Kentucky Review was the judge.

Selected for 92nd Street Y master class in fiction with James Salter and Poets House master class in poetry with C.K. Williams. Recipient of: --Seattle Arts Commission Grant in Scriptwriting; --King County Arts Commission Grant in Fiction; --King County Arts Commission Grant (as editor) for special issue of Northwest Ethnic News. Recipient of an NEH Fellowship: National Endowment for Humanities for Secondary Educators: Summer Seminar at Kenyon College. In a seminar with ten other high school teachers, we discussed "Friendship in Literature." The workshop was led by Ronald A. Sharp, co-editor (with Eudora Welty) of the Norton Book of Friendship. Winner of the LordJesusChristSavior (that is how it's spelled-no breaks) poetry contest. Helen Losse, Poetry Editor for The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and Associate Editor for Kentucky Review was the judge.

Education:

Sarah Lawrence College