September 2024
Bio Note: A hard of hearing artist and award-winning writer adopted in Luxembourg, I am the author of two memoirs in verse, entitled Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion (Kelsay Books, 2022) and Echoes in My Eyes (Kelsay Books, 2024), and a short form poetry collection entitled Bookmarks (Red Moon Press, 2023). Other works have appeared in more than ninety literary journals internationally. I have also written for a newspaper for the Deaf and hard of hearing community, and worked with Deaf students in education. I live in Vermont, and serve as Creative Nonfiction Editor of The Bookends Review.
haiku and tanka
wedding day sky I borrow something blue Originally published in Modern Haiku, Issue 55:2, Summer 2024first argument during a night swim the stars in my eyes slipping through my fingers Originally published in failed haiku, Issue #100, June 2024
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