I am inspired to write about nature’s awe, love gone good and bad and life’s ironies. Here you can see a list of some of my poems and personal narratives that have been published in journals and anthologies. Many pieces have been linked so you can read them. Enjoy!
Novels:
The Green Lace Corset She Writes Press October 2020
The Silver Shoes She Writes Press, June 2018
The Black Velvet Coat She Writes Press, October 2015
Poems:
A Year In Ink. San Diego, The Ink Spot Press. Print
“Poker Face.” Vol. 17, Ed. Katie Manning. 2024
Vol. 15, Co-Editor with Ted Washington. 2022
“There are Lonely Cemeteries.” Vol. 13, Ed. Carrie Danielson. 2019
“When Did His Dying Begin?” Vol. 11. Ed. Judy Reeves. 2018
“In the Fast Lane.” Vol. 10, Ed. Judy Reeves. 2017
“The Mikado.” Vol. 8. Eds. Dean Nelson and reg e gaines. 2015
“Lost at Sea.” A Year in Ink, Vol 7. Eds. Shadab Zeest Hashmi and Jim Ruland. San Diego: 2014
“Ay, Carumba.” Vol. 6. Eds. Michael Klam and Anthony Bonds. 2013.
The Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry. Ed. Charles Portolano. Fountain Hills, AZ. Print.
“Fall From Above.” Fall 2023
“In Awe.” and “Flower Moon.” Spring 2023
“Surprise.” Spring 2021
“California Pepper Tree.” Fall 2020
“Fleeting Beauties.” Spring 2020
“Bad Blue Jay” and “Morning Quail.” Winter 2019
“Perseid Night Sky.” Summer 2019
“It’s Always Fire Season Now.” Summer 2018
“Resolutions Written.” Winter 2018
“No Moon.” Weekly Avocet #301, September 9, 2018
“A Precarious Night.” Winter 2017
“The Birdhouse.” and “A Spring Symphony.” Spring 2016
“The Acorn Goddess.” Fall 2015
“The Gray Fox.” Summer 2015
“Icy Morning.” and “Hibernation for Rejuvenation.” Winter 2015
“The Oak.” Summer 2014
San Diego Poetry Annual, Rainbow, CA Garden Oat Press, Print.
“Two Toms and a Hen.” Ed. Michael Klam. March 2023 – 2024
“Who is this Woman in the Silver Shoes.” Ed. Michael Klam. March 2022 – 2023
“Quarantine Visitor.” and “Not So Lone Coyote.” and “Mother Earth.” Ed. Michael Klam. March 2021 – 2022
“Life in the Fast Lane.” Ed. Michael Klam. March 2020 – 2021
“Cosmic Reverie” and “Does He Know the Secrets of the Universe?” Ed. Seretta Martin. March 2019-2020
“Hot Mango Margarita.” Ed. Seretta Martin. March 2019
“Raw.” Ed. Seretta Martin. March 2018
“A Confession.” Seretta Martin, March 2015
Assorted Publications:
“Prayer Poetry Spring 2020.” Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis. Ed. Stephanie Rafflelock, Berkeley, California: She Writes Press, 2022. 73-75. Print.
“Desires.” San Diego Poetry Together Challenge, San Diego. Ed. Ron Salisbury, 2020. Visit my YouTube Channel to experience the recording.
“Without Stars.” The Poeming Pigeon 9 The Cosmos Issue. Ed. Shawn Aveningo Sanders, Portland, Oregon: The Poetry Box. 2020. 99. Print.
“Ecocide San Diego.” Open Earth II Eco Poems. Ed. Susann Moeller. Pudding Magazine. 2017. 30. Print.
“No Such Thing as Global Warming?” Sunshine Noir II, Writing from San Diego and Tijuana. Ed. Kelly Mayhew and Jim Miller, San Diego: City Works Press, 2015. 173. Print.
“I Will Consider My Dog Mocha.” Sundays at Liberty Station. Ed. Steve Kowit. San Diego, CA, 2015. 29-31. Print.
“Locked Up Inside.” City Works. San Diego: San Diego City College, 2014. 41. Print.
“I Too Looked for Mr. Goodbar.” Serving House Journal 7. Ed. Steve Kowit. 2013. Online.
“Tiny Dancer” and “Mother.” Judy Reeves, ed. Wild Women Wild Voices: Collected Writings from the 2012 Wild Women Writing Workshop. San Diego: Lively Muse Press, 2013. 23. Print.
Personal Narratives:
“1960s Family Bar-B-Q” Crealivity 2021
“Loves Me All the Time” Olfactory Memoirs a Creative Catalyst Project website. 2016.
“A Bygone Fashion” Olfactory Memoirs a Creative Catalyst Project website. 2015.
“Grandma G.” Judy Reeves, ed. Wild Women Wild Voices: Collected Writings from the 2012 Wild Women Writing Workshop. San Diego: Lively Muse Press, 2013. 13-14. Print.
“Piano Lessons.” Judy Reeves, ed. Wild Women Wild Voices: Collected Writings from the 2012 Wild Women Writing Workshop. San Diego: Lively Muse Press, 2013. 26-27. Print.
Articles:
“Seven Tips for Intuitive Writers” Writers Digest. October 27, 2020
“Write With the Heart, Not the Head” Writer’s Digest, October 13, 2020
“Feisty Writer Writes Feisty Characters” The Feisty Writer, September 19, 2018
“Ten Tips to Creating your Author Wardrobe” She Writes, June 13, 2018
“Ten Tips and Tricks from a Debut Novelist” Manhattan Book Review, November 24, 2015
“From Prose to Poetry and Back Again” We Heart Writing,
“The Inspiration for The Black Velvet Coat” Behind the Book, She Writes Press, October 12, 2015
