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You can find my writing in 2007-08 issues of:

Ars Medica; Atlanta Review; Bayou; Caesura; Café Review; Cider Press Review; Clackamas Literary Review; DivineCaroline.com; Dogwood Review, Dos Passos Review; Flyway; Fourteen Hills; Iodine Poetry Journal; Journal of the American Medical Association; Los Angeles Review; Margie; Marin Poetry Center Anthology 2007; Mudfish; Nimrod International Journal; North American Review; Off Course Literary Review; Pearl; Phantasmagoria; Poetalk; Poetry East; Poetry Now; Powderroom.com; Red Rock Review; Sand Hill Review; Sanskrit; South Carolina Review; Spoon River Poetry Review; Taproot Literary Review; The Cincinnati Review; The Distillery; The Pacific REVIEW; The Sow's Ear Poetry Review; The Women’s Review of Books; Twelve Ways: An Anthology of the 2007 Intergenerational Writer’s Lab; Wordgathering: A Disability Journal

Coming up:

Feature in Marin Independent Journal 8-28-08, Review in The Adirondack Review, Fall 2008 (other reviews linked on Publications Page.) Readings on “The Poetry Hour,” KUSP fm Santa Cruz 8-31-08, and "Word Temple," KRCB fm Santa Rosa, Fall 08. The most recent issue of the Clackamas Review includes seven poems from Dark Card.

Awards in 2007-08

Books:

Dark Card: First Place, 2007 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook award.

Mom’s Canoe: First Place, 2008 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook award.

Altoona Anywhere: finalist, 2007 Emily Dickinson First Book Prize (Poetry); semifinalist, 2007 Brittingham and Pollak Book Prize.

Poems:

Pushcart Prize Nominations for "Dark Card" and "Altoona to Marin"; International Publication Prize 2007 and 2008 (Atlanta Review); Second Place 2008 Mudfish contest. Finalist, 2006 James Hearst Poetry Prize (North American Review) and others.

Vermont Studio Center Residency, 2008.