Count Me a Contemporary American Woman

Check out my essay, “How Did I Get Roped Into This?” in Contemporary American Women: Our Defining Passages, available this month from All Things That Matter Press. This will make a great Christmas present for those beautiful strong women (or men) in your life. And for you professors, this exciting nonfiction anthology addresses women’s issues [...]

Find Markets to Publish Your Poetry, Short Stories, and Creative Nonfiction

Once you’ve got your writing organized and ready to go, you need a place to send it. How do you find good markets for your work?
It depends on how you define good. Ultimately, you want markets that you would feel proud to have your work in. Early on, I submitted poetry blindly. What that means is that [...]

I Am A Fever

Had a poem published in Literary Mama today! Read it here.

Getting Your Poems Organized for Submission

When you’re submitting writing, especially when you’re a poet so you’ve got a lot of titles to keep track of, you need an organizing system. It ensures that you keep sending out all the poems that you’d like to have published, you know what is sent where and how long it’s been there, and you [...]

Writing Process for First Two Weeks of September

How do you write? When do you do it? How do you know what to do? I’m always curious to find out how other writers approach writing. It’s one of the reasons I love memoirs on writing –Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is one of my favorites. While no two [...]