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Introduction Hello, For a number of years, a group of writers have met at regular intervals in Listowel. The genesis of the group was a workshop, facilitated by Paddy Bushe. and the highlight of the weekend turned out to be a poem called 'The First Cut' by Hilary Murrane from Sandycove in Dublin. This was the first workshop for most of those present and, despite Paddy's easy-going manner, the weekend had proved somewhat stressful, especially for the less experienced among us. At the end of Hilary's poem, we looked at Paddy Bushe, Paddy looked back at us and Hilary looked , well, ... pensive. Eventually someone giggled and, suddenly, all that pent-up tension dissipated itself through the room in gales of laughter. For the first time, many of us realised that not only could poetry be utterly incomprehensible, it could also be very funny. There was no going back, we were hooked. The workshop ended and the visiting participants scattered. We have not had any contact with Hilary Murrane since then, but, still wandering around Sandycove, I hope, is a lovely lady who is probably completely unaware of the ongoing hours of pleasure she bequeathed to a gaggle of poets in Listowel. And, if by any chance, you become aware of this, Hilary, please get in touch. We would love to publish 'The First Cut' , with your permission. In any case, it will live on in the title of this magazine. That was 2003. Since then, we have grown together as writers. A few of us have been published, others have been nominated for national awards, but, most important of all, is the sense of comradeship our common love of writing has fostered. Our strength has been a collective tolerance of the individual foibles that occur in any group and a mutual desire to support each other with criticism that is genuinely constructive. It is expected that most of our contributors will be local writers; however, as an ezine, the world is, literally, our oyster. With that in mind, please write; we give you our welcome, we welcome your genius.
And, Hilary Murrane, Please write!
Submission Guidelines. thefirstcut accepts poetry, short stories, flash fiction and essays from Irish and International writers. Please send your submissions to renagown@gmail.com . Please place 'thefirstcut submission' in the subject line. All work must be contained in the body of the E-mail -- attachments will not be accepted. Poems must be the sender's own work. Please notify us immediately if work, simultaneously submitted, is accepted for publishing elsewhere. Send a short bio (less than 100 words). If work has been previously published, please ensure that you are free to submit it to thefirstcut and let us know where and when it was first published. thefirstcut retains first rights, i.e., if your work is subsequently published elsewhere, thefirstcut must be cited as the original place of publication. Publication in this magazine constitutes "previous publication" for most poetry contests. Copyright remains with the author. Poems Send up to 3 poems. Poems must not be longer than 40 lines. Formatting: Bookman Old Style, single spaced. Please ensure correct spelling, grammar and formatting. Prose and Essays Send no more than one previously unpublished piece, 500-1500 words in length, in the body of an email. Dipping the pen: In line with our philosophy of encouraging developing writers, which is the norm in a writing group, this section is reserved for previously unpublished writers or for those who consider themselves to be still learning their craft. It is restricted to writers in the Kerry/West Limerick area because these are the people we feel we can best help through contact with our writer's group. Please type 'Dipping the pen' in the subject line if you would feel more comfortable submitting to this section. The editors will commend one entry from this section each month. Port Laureates and other established writers attempting to get into our journal through this section will, if spotted, have their caesuras crushed,their distiches dipped and their metaphors mixed. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. thefirstcut will be published bi-monthly. Closing dates for submissions will be the first day of the month prior to the next publication. Closing date for the next edition will be July 1st for the edition to be published on August 1st. We welcome comment, indeed, beseech it, but, in line with our ethos, ask that it be kept clean and constructive.
Our Contributors Nicholas Alexander
Nicholas Damion Alexander is a teacher of English and Philosophy. He is also a poet. His works have been published in The Jamaica Gleaner, The Jamaica Observer, Caribbean Voice magazine, Poets against war, Auckland Poetry, The Black Collegian, Angelfire, Mr. Africa poetry lounge and the 'Calabash' anthology So Much Things To Say. In 2008 he was awarded a fellowship with Calabash International Writers' Workshop.In 2011, he was featured on e-Buffet's online magazine: "Postcards from the people of Earth".He has also been featured on TV programs and in newspapers in Jamaica.
Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick was born and raised near Listowel Co. Kerry. She was eduacted in IT Tralee and NUIG where she obtained a MA in Screenwriting. She has been a member of the Just Write group in Listowel since 2003. They have 3 self-published books. She has won a poetry prize in the Ballydonoghue magazine.
Mary Lavery Carrig
Mary Lavery Carrig Rich Pickings and Through an Open Window are her two collections of published poetry. She has been a featured writer on Sunday Miscellany, RTE1. Her adaptation for stage of the Thomas McGreevy poem 'Homage to Marcel Proust' has been performed and well received. She has written and directed two plays for teenagers, Under Brooklyn Bridge and The MacWearys. She lives in her native Tarbert, Co. Kerry.
Mick Corrigan
Mick has been writing for years and has been published by a range of periodicals and on-line journals. He is in his fifties (at least he thinks they’re his fifties, they could be someone else’s), and lives in County Kildare with Trish his lifer, Molly the talking wonder dog and Bandit the gin drinking dowager cat. His poems can be found in The Prairie Schooner, Revival Poetry Journal, Five Poetry Journal, Upstart.ie/blog, CanCan Poezine, Burning Bush 2 Magazine, MadSwirl Poetry Forum and of course Thefirstcut Poetry Journal.
Laurie Corzett/ libramoon
seeking outlet for those crazy thoughtstreams, is always moving into new (or resurrected) projects, including Emerging Visions visionary art 'zine: http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com; Seers and Seekers Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seerseeker/; The Healing Dance Network Yahoo Group: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/healingdance/; theme-based chapbooks of her writings; an experimental metafiction, working title: Something Sacred http://caelastory.blogspot.com/; a (envisioned as) graphic novel (anyone want to do the graphics?), Acts of Desolation:http://caelastory.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html; as well as her Utopian Flash Fiction Project -- series of flash fiction pieces around a federation of diverse villages each working out their methods of community life -- little dramatic impacts illustrating creative solutions to social problems: http://tribes.tribe.net/uff.
Colwin Dansio
Colwin Daniso.is aged 38. he is a budding writer and poet and is a member of the budding writers association of zimbabwe. He has also attended several writing workshops conducted by BWAZ. The resource persons at some of these workshops were Ignatius Musonza, a well known international children"s writer and the late Stephen Alumenda who was also a renowned international children"s writer. At these workshops participants learnt quite a lot about writing techniques and the likes.
Tatjana Debeljacki
Tatjana was born 1967 in Užice. She writes poetry, short stories, stories and haiku. She is a Member of Association of Writers of Serbia -UKS since 2004. She is Haiku Society of Serbia- Deputy editor of Diogen. She also is the editor of the magazine Poeta. She has four books of poetry published. Email/Websites/Blogs Debeljacki & follow her on Twitter.
Maurice Devitt
A student at Mater Dei in Dublin I am reading for an MA in Poetry Studies. Recently long-listed for the Doire Press Chapbook Competition, during 2011 I was short-listed for both the Fish Poetry prize and the Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition, and was runner-up in the Phizzfest poetry competition. Over the past twelve months I have had poems accepted by Abridged, Moloch, Paraxis, Weary Blues, #firstcut, Stony Thursday, Ofi Press, Bluepepper and Smiths Knoll and am now working towards a first collection. Pauline Fayne was born in Dublin in 1954. Her poems have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies in Ireland and have been broadcast on radio stations throughout Europe. Her first three collections ‘Journey’ (Sheveck Press 1979), ‘Killer of Fishes’ (Stonebridge Publications 2001), and ‘I’m Fine, Really’ (Stonebridge Publications 2005) are now out of print .Her New and Selected poems ‘Mowing in the dark’ was published by Revival Press in June.An interview and a selection of poems can be heard on www.podcasts.ie.
Pauline Fayne
Sharon Frye
Sharon resides in Enid, Oklahoma and works for the United States Postal Service as a rural mail carrier. Her passions are reading, writing, gardening and her family.
Mary Margaret Gallagher
Mary Margaret Gallagher crossed the Atlantic from Ireland in her mother’s womb landing in Ohio. She has recently joined the ranks of retired grown ups. As long as she can remember, Mary has been writing down her thoughts and musings and keeping them in a box under her bed. A selfprofessed free spirit who is in no hurry to “grow up”, Mary believes life’s journey takes us where we are supposed to be. She has dusted off the box and is eager to begin the rest of her journey – giving flight to the songs in her Irish soul.
Mike Gallagher
Mike J Gallagher was born on Achill Island, Co. Mayo and retired to Kerry after 40 years in London. His poetry, prose and songs have been published in journals and anthologies throughout Europe, America, Canada, Japan, Australia and India. He won 2008 Samhlaíocht Poetry Slam, the 2010 Michael Hartnett Viva Voce Contest and is currently a nominee for the Hennessy Award. He has edited a number of poetry and prose books and is chief editor of thefirstcut.
Shauna Gilligan
Shauna, from Dublin, is completing a PhD (Writing) at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. As she works full-time and has two young children, writing has become a nocturnal habit. Days are frequently spent itching to get back to this or that paragraph. She volunteers at Fighting Words, a creative writing centre in Dublin and is a member of the Fighting Words Creative Writers’ Circle. She is working on a short story collection which centres on the themes of loss, women and family and her first collection Red Girl is due for publication in 2012 with Ward Wood Publishing.
Kevin Graham
Kevin Graham has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Shop, Revival, Crannóg and other magazines. In 2010 he was awarded an Arts Council bursary. He won 3rd prize in the 2011 WOW! Awards. He lives and works in Dublin.
Kevin Griffin
Kevin Griffin born in Killorglin Kerry1947 He was educated at Intermediate School Killorglin and has a BA from UCC. Then taught at Intermediate School Killorglin from 1969 to 2009. where he taught English, History and Latin. He is a keen athlete and has competed at all Ireland masters. He was always interested in writing but only took it very seriously since he retired.
George Harding
George's first book, My Stolen City, was published last May by Revival Press.He has read in Dingle, Cork, Limerick etc. George is an amateur enviornmentalist and bibliophile. Also a hurling fanatic.
Joe Healy
Joe Healy is a resident of West Limerick and has always loved writing. Poetry readings organised by the Arts Office of Limerick County Council in 2002 was the catalyst to inspire Joe to write more and try out his poems in public. Joe currently works as a technician in the councils transport department and lives near the village of Kilmeedy, County Limerick. He has enjoyed reading his work at venues such as the White House and Lock Bar venues in Limerick City, also in many venues across Munster. Previous work has been published by Soft Newsletter, Weekly Observer Newspapers and Revival Press. In December 2010 Joe was featured in Sextet – A Revival Poetry Anthology- along with 6 other poets with Limerick connections.
Miceál Kearney
Miceál Kearney, 31. Published in Ireland, England and America. Read as part of Poetry Ireland’s Introduction Series ’09. Doire Press published his debut collection in May ‘08
Anatoly Kudryavitsky Anatoly was born in Moscow in 1954 of a Polish father and half-Irish mother. He lived in Russia and in Germany (between 1999 and 2002). Since 2002 he has been based in Dublin. A former Samizdat author, he was blacklisted in 1979, and first saw his work published in 1989. Since then, he has published two novels, two novellas and a number of short stories. Seven collections of his Russian poems appeared in Moscow; they were followed by three collections of his English poems: "Shadow of Time" (Goldsmith Press, Ireland, 2005), "Morning at Mount Ring" (DOGHOUSE, 2007) and "Capering Moons" (DOGHOUSE, 2011). His anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation entitled "A Night in the Nabokov Hotel" was published by Dedalus Press, Ireland, in 2006. He was the founder and first President of the Russian Poetry Society. From 1999 till 2004 he was on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Poetry Associations, UNESCO. Poet, fiction writer and literary translator, he is a member of the Russian Writers' Union, chairman of the Irish Haiku Society and editor of Shamrock Haiku Journal(http://shamrockhaiku.webs.com). In 2005 he was shortlisted for the Robert Graves Poetry Award; in 2008 he won the Suruga Baika Prize for his haiku (Japan), and in 2010 was awarded the David Burliuk Prize for life-long commitment to experimental poetry. His work has been translated into eleven European languages, and he gave readings at various international literary festivals. Anatoly's DOGHOUSE Publications: Capering Moons - May 2011 Morning at Mount Ring - September 2007 Anatoly's Website:www.kudryavitsky.webs.com Mina Lakshmanan
Minakshi now uses the pen name minalaksh. She has been a translator, teacher and an independent art curator. Now back in Mumbai after living abroad she is a full time writer. Contributed to literary magazines and the web. (some mentioned below) You may log on to http://epicindia.com/magazine .(minalaksh), an anthology of contemporary literary literature -Taj mahal Review- where her poem ‘it’s not happening’ is under minakshi balasubramaniam and the literary magazine leaves where ‘midday dreams with dragon fly” is an ode. Magical realism, blank verse, opera and jazz are her pasion when her writing takes root Africa and Italy sometimes filter through her skills.
Donal Mahoney
Donal Mahoney, the son of immigrants from Kerry and Cork, lives in St. Louis, Missouri now although he spent most of his life in Chicago, Illinois. Some of his earliest work appeared in Arena, edited in Dublin in the 1960s and 1970s by the late Michael Hartnett and James Liddy. Other work has since appeared in Public Republic (Bulgaria), Revival (Ireland), The Istanbul Literary Review (Turkey), The Osprey Journal (Scotland), Pirene's Fountain (Australia), Stony Thursday Book (Ireland), The Wisconsin Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, Commonweal and other publications.
Mari Maxwell
Mari Maxwell's work has featured in Revival, Boyne Berries and Beyond the Diaper Bag. She has also been published in several online and other publications in both the USA and Ireland. One of her short stories was placed second in the 2008 Dromineer Literary Festival.
John McGrath
John McGrath’s first collection of poetry and short stories, Blue-Sky Day, was launched at Listowel Writers’ Week in 2007. He lives in North Kerry with Kate. Check out his work on www.moybellapress.com.
Tom Moloney
Tom Moloney is a happily-married man. He is the father of two grown-up sons. He lives in Broadford, Co. Limerick. He likes to think that he is liberal-minded, practices meditation/mindfulness, accepts that there is no hope and no fear although thinking makes it seem so and realizes that after sitting in the spaciousness of silence, he can more-readily prepare a humble room for his Muse. One could say that he finds his voice in silence. His first collection 'My Register' (Linden Press), published in 2009, was well-received. The original internet(word-of-mouth) ensured that its printrun sold out fairly quickly. His second collection, (Lapwing) forthcoming at the end of this year, will probably be called 'Darling, For Women it's Different'.
Matt Mooney.
Born in Kilchreest in South Galway of farming stock in 1943, he graduated from UCG and later took up a teaching position in Listowel in 1966, retiring in 2002. He produced his first collection of poetry 'Droving' in 2003 and this was followed by his second collection ‘Falling Apples’ published by Original Writing in 2010. Both books were launched at Writers’ Week. He has read at The Baffle Poetry Festival ,The West Cork Literary Festival and The Forge at Gort Literary Festival. He has been guest poet at the The White House, Limerick and he has read at Ó Bhéal in Cork,The Black Stilt Restaurant, Victoria, B.C , Le Café Deux Soleils, Vancouver; at poetry Slam finals, including Baffle , Cúirt, Writers’ Week and The Brendan Kennelly Festival. He has had poems published on West 47, on the First Cut, in Feasta, The Connaught Tribune , in Five Words and in The Kerryman. He has read on Radio Kerry and had one of his poems read by Ciarán Mac Mathúna on RTE.
Kinga Nowak
Kinga Nowak is a Toronto based freelance writer and editor, currently enrolled at York University-Glendon. He writes poetry, prose and after a long hiatus from a short lived-theatre career he is returning to play-writing and expanding into screen-writing. He has recently self-published a collection of poetry, "Losing Puck" and maintains a blog http://magicnumbereight.blogspot.com
Kerrie O' Brien
Kerrie O' Brien has been published in various Irish and UK literary journals including Southword, Orbis, two issues of Crannóg, Revival, Icarus, The Cathach, College Green, Ropes, Daydreamer, Wordlegs, Minus 9 Squared, The First Cut and Boyne Berries. She will also have poems appearing in the forthcoming editions of The Poetry Bus, Stony Thursday, Outburst, Raft Magazine and Neon Literary Magazine. Her poem Blossoms has been chosen as the winning entry in the Emerging Talent category of the 2011 iYeats Poetry Competition. She has also been shortlisted for the Over the Edge New Writer of The Year Competition 2011 www.kerrieobrien.com
Niall O’Connor
Dishwasher, vegetable man, clamper, teller, fool . . . or is it Restaurateur, Retailer, Regional Manager, Poet and Postmaster? A life spent at the coal face has resulted in a lifetime of observations stored, and now only released when distilled as the smoothest of whiskeys, lethal and seductive. Niall’s poems have been published in The Examiner and most recently in The Stoney Thursday Book, thefirstcut#, A handful of Stones, Carty’s Poetry Journal, Madrush, Outburst, Corvus and others. He hopes to be remembered as a poet and writer, rather than a nice guy, but so far it is pretty much 50 /50. He blogs at the very popular dublinepost.blogspot.com , lives in Dublin, and is currently ‘prepping’ his second Novel. He writes because that is who he is . . .
Padraig Ó Gallchobhair
Padraig was born on Achill Island on February 17, 1916. He is a lively soul who greets each dawn with a song in his heart. A man of wit and wisdom, Padraig continues to entertain his children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren with his tales of the adventures he had while growing up on Achill Island. From climbing Slievemore to cutting the turf his stories flow from his soul. He has been married to his Roscommon born wife, Lily, for 63 wonderful years. At age 95 Padraig's fine mind holds the history of his homeland and his heart holds the love of her beauty.
Mary O’Gorman
Mary O’Gorman grew up in Killarney but now lives in Clonmel. She works in a part-time capacity in Loreto Secondary School, Clonmel as a counsellor for girls with troubles. Mary has a husband, two daughters, three dogs, three horses and a pheasant named William who visits occasionally. She was particularly delighted to win first prize at Listowel in 2011 as the poem in question was a tribute to her only sibling, Judy, who had Downs Syndrome and died in 2009. She loves reading, theatre, films, walking, her job and of course, writing! Her poems have been published widely including twice in Poetry Ireland Review, Books Ireland, Oxford Magazine, Sunday Tribune, Poets for the Millennium, Listowel Writers Week Winners Anthology, a Junior Cert. English Revision Aid and elsewhere. Mary has been a finalist in the Strokestown Poetry Prize and twice shortlisted for the Hennessy Award for Poetry. She won the Cork Literary Review Competition and was runner-up in the Fish Poetry Competition twice. Her collection Barking at Blackbirds was published by Bradshaw Books in 2001. She read her poetry on The Arts Show, Rattlebag, The Enchanted Way and Playback on Radio One. Mary’s short story One Hundred Strokes was broadcast on Radio One in 2008 as part of the Francis McManus Short Story competition and a radio play she wrote was a finalist in the 2004 P.J. O’Connor Radio Play Awards.
Maeve O’Sullivan
Maeve O’Sullivan has published her poems and haiku widely, and is a former poetry winner at Listowel Writers’ Week. She is a member of Haiku Ireland, the British Haiku Society, the Poetry Divas and the Hibernian Poetry Workshop. Maeve has read her work in many different venues and festivals including the Twisted Pepper Café, The White House Bar, Ó Bhéal and the Electric Picnic. Maeve’s joint haiku collection with Kim Richardson, Double Rainbow, came out in 2005. Her first solo haiku collection, Initial Response, was launched in April 2011. Both books are published by Alba Publishing (UK).
John Pinschmidt
John is a retired American high school English teacher, living in Herbertstown, Co. Limerick with his Irish wife. He was first runner up in Limerick's 2009 Cuisle International Poetry Slam, and has had poems published in the Revival Literary Journal, Numbers 14 through 21. He is one of six poets in Revival's poetry anthology, Sextet, published in December, 2010. His poems are also in thefirstcut numbers 2 through 5, the Open Mouse site of Poetry Scotland, Boyne Berries 10, Stony Thursday Book 10, Poetic Humour (Whitehouse Bar Poets) and in The Clare Champion. He is part of the Poetry Plus Writers' Group sponsored by the Limerick Writers' Centre.
Jon Plunkett
Born in Northern Ireland, now living in Scotland, Jon Plunkett uses poetry as a means of exploring the world he inhabits. His work has appeared in a number of online and in print poetry and literature magazines including Speech Therapy Poetry, Poetry Scotland's Open Mouse, Sparkbright, The Canon's Mouth, Decanto and many more. His work was also selected by Underground Poetry and used in their 'Poetry on the move' campaign in 2011.'
Irina Privorotskaya
Irina grew up in the Ukraine until she was 13 years old, and then moved to the United States with her family. She is now finishing her residency in internal medicine, and will be a practicing physician in adult general medicine next year in the Boston area, where she has lived for a few years now with her husband.
G.B. Ryan
G.B. Ryan was born and raised in Dublin. He lives in New York City, where he has two children and works as a ghostwriter. His chapbook SOME POEMS was published by Elkhound in 2010.
John W. Sexton
John W. Sexton is a poet, short story writer, dramatist, children’s novelist, radio scriptwriter and broadcaster. He is the author of four collections of poetry, The Prince’s Brief Career, (Cairn Mountain Press, 1995); Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth, (Doghouse, 2004) ; Vortex (Doghouse, 2005); and Petit Mal (Revival 2009). A fifth collection, The Offspring of the Moon, is due from Salmon Poetry in 2012. Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. He is a past nominee for The Hennessy Literary Award and his poem The Green Owl won the Listowel Poetry Prize 2007. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. He is also an internationally recognised haiku poet and his haiku and haibun have been widely published and anthologised. His work will also feature in Haiku 21, an anthology of 21st century English-language haiku, which is forthcoming from Modern Haiku Press (USA).
Margaret Sheehan
Poet and solicitor lives in leafy Ballygrennan, a suburb of Listowel.
Helen Farrell Simcox Helen lives in Charleville in County Cork and has been writing for a number of years. Some of her poetry has been published in Revival, The Stony Thursday Book and Haiku Ireland Shamrock Anthology. Rachael Stanley
Rachael is from Dublin where she currently lives with her family. After having published some work in previous decades, and reared her family, she has once again taken up the pen. Work published more recently includes Remembering My Father as we approached Gethsemene, published in Writing4All, The Best of 2010, and poems published in 2 anthologies, Static Poetry II and Static Poetry III published in the US and the UK. She has also recently published some haiku poems with Haiku J online and has further acceptance of a haiku poem at Issa’s Untidy Hut, edited by Don Wentworth.
Susan Tepper
Susan is a former actress turned writer. Working steadily at her craft for the past 18 years, she has published hundreds of poems, stories, essays and interviews in journals and online publications world wide. Tepper is also the author of four published books. Her most recent title “From the Umberplatzen” (Wilderness House Press, 2012) is a collection of linkedflash-fiction that has also been listed as a novella and a short novel by some reviewers. Tepper has been nominated 9 times for the Pushcart Prize. The title story from her first story collection “Deer” was nominated for National Public Radio’s ‘Selected Shorts’ series, and that same story was performed as a theatre piece at Inter/Act Theatre in Philadelphia. Tepper hosts FIZZ a reading series at KGB Bar in NYC. She also has a column at Fictionaut (The Monday Chat), and is a contributing writer for The Nervous Breakdown. Personally inscribed copies of “From the Umberplatzen” are available through the author’s website at www.susantepper.com
Pamela Clarke Vandall
P.C. Vandall lives on Gabriola Island with her two children and husband. She attended the creative writing program at Malaspina University College, and likes to spend her free time writing poetry and fiction. Her poems have appeared in Bare Hands, Poetry Bus, Unfold, and in the upcoming issue of Ginosko Literary Journal.
Patrick Walsh
Cork, Ireland mostly published in Ezines; most recent print.....Sharp, Tintean,Ugly Tree
Linda Whittenberg
Linda Whittenberg turned to writing poetry when she retired as a Unitarian minister in 2000. Two books were published in 2009: a chapbook, Dying Can Wait by Pudding House Publications and Tender Harvest by Black Swan Editions. Tender Harvest was a finalist for the 2010 New Mexico Book Award. Since attending Writers' Week 2010 and 2011, she has been working on a manuscript of Irish inspired poems that will be published spring, 2012. She makes her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she and her husband are companions to: a mule, a goat, and two Australian cattle dogs. For more, visit her website: www.lindawhittenberg.com
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