Welcome!

Welcome to my new author page!
It will lack all the bells and whistles of the former web site, but writers must cut budget costs sometimes, right?
Blogger has never steered me wrong; I started my very first blog in 2001 on this here blogger - back when it was blogspot. That should age me. And, no, you won't find that original blog, either. Age teaches you to delete old things.

So while this author web site will be simpler, I still plan on updating you all on publications, events, and all other good-to-know things about me.

Let's play catch-up:

Late last Fall, I discovered Duotrope. If you don't know what that is, I highly suggest you click on over there and check it out if you are any sort of writer. I discovered all its ingenious uses and have now submitted over 500 batches of poems. I get up early each day, drive to my favorite coffeehouse, put on my Spotify playlists, and do my research on the best places to submit my work. Currently, I am submitting poems from my latest collection, "O! Olena!" as well as submitting older work that has new life breathed into it.

To my delight, hard (obsessive) work paid off. This year, I've been published by:

The Peacock Journal
Diode Poetry Journal

and have poems forthcoming in SUSAN/The Journal and Poetry Quarterly.

All of this is a testament to the submission mindset that I've subscribed to since I was a teen writer: send out two poems with every one rejection you receive. For the past five months, I've sent out a bunch more. I believe there are homes for your work. You just have to work at finding them.