Sappho's Corner Editor:
Beth Mitchum
About the Poet and Editor: Beth Mitchum
Beth Mitchum is back in Central Florida
after spending nearly 18 years in the Seattle area. She lived in the Seattle area
from 1993 to 2010 then spent another six months there in 2012. Although she
lived in multiple places all around Puget Sound, her favorite nesting spot was
on the Kitsap Peninsula, where she was able to enjoy waterfront living and bald
eagle watching most of the time she lived there. Before moving to Seattle, she
spent eight years in the Asheville, North Carolina area, a place of great
beauty and folk art culture. While in Asheville, she received her master’s
degree from UNC-Asheville. Before moving to North Carolina in 1985, she lived
in Lakeland, Florida, where she attended college, landed her first great job,
and found the first of many really cool living spaces. Beth grew up in Winter
Park, Florida, a European-style city in the heart of Central Florida. She lives
with her four cats, who make her laugh daily. Her books are available at Amazon’s
international warehouses, most online bookstores, and via special order from
your local independent bookstore. You can also go to bethmitchum.com, where you
can order autographed copies via her online bookstore Bookshop without Bordrs. Her published works include: Driftwood, Higher Love, In My Dreams, The
Diary of Allie Katz, The Goddess Series, Books 1-3, Seen Dancing: Essay from
the Heart, Slices of My Life: So Far, bethwor(l)ds: 20 years of poetry, Wor(l)ds
of Love, Loss, and Longing, and Driftwood: The Music. She is also a contributing poet and the editor
of the Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series
and editor of the Sappho’s Corner Solo
Poets Series. You can interact with the author on Facebook and Twitter.
Lynn Ames
About the Poet: Lynn Ames
Lynn
Ames is the best-selling author of The
Price of Fame (short-listed for the first annual Golden Crown
Literary Society award for lesbian romance), The
Cost of Commitment, The
Value of Valor (winner of the 2007 Arizona Book Award for Best
Gay/Lesbian Book), One ~ Love
(formerly The Flip
Side of Desire, a finalist for the GCLS 2007 Ann Bannon Best
Popular Lesbian Fiction Award), Heartsong
(short-listed for the 2008 GCLS award for best lesbian romance), Eyes on the Stars (winner of the 2011
GCLS award for best historical romance), Beyond
Instinct (winner of the 2012 GCLS award for best mystery/thriller), Above Reproach, All That Lies Within, and one of five authors of the collection Outsiders (winner of a 2010 GCLS award).
Ms.
Ames is the founder of Phoenix Rising Press. She is a former press secretary to
the New York state senate minority leader and former spokesperson for the
nation’s third-largest prison system. For more than half a decade, she was an
award-winning broadcast journalist. She has been editor of a critically
acclaimed national magazine and is a nationally recognized speaker and public
relations professional with a particular expertise in image management, crisis
communications planning, and crisis management.
Nikki still lives in northern New Jersey where she works as a freelance copywriter and editor of fiction and nonfiction. She has a BA in English from Douglass (the women’s college) at Rutgers University and, as a late bloomer, is still scratching her head, wondering why she didn’t figure out her sexual orientation while part of a student body filled with radical lesbian feminists. When not working or spending time with the woman she loves, Nikki is writing poetry and fiction and furthering her education online at the University of California San Diego. She is a Golden Crown Literary Society member, has a Facebook fan page at Nikki Busch Editing Services, can be found on Twitter @NikkiBuschEdit and via email: NBwritethink@gmail.com.
About the Poet: Nikki Busch
Nikki Busch returned to writing poetry after decades of suppressing her
creativity while under the influence of writing drug advertising. Born and
raised in “da Bronx” and later in northern New Jersey, Nikki grew up a rock and
roller, sang lead and played keyboards in a punk band, and published poetry and
read her work at poetry readings in the 1980s. Her early poems were published
in the anthologies Our Wonderful Country, Caret,
and i.e.
Nikki still lives in northern New Jersey where she works as a freelance copywriter and editor of fiction and nonfiction. She has a BA in English from Douglass (the women’s college) at Rutgers University and, as a late bloomer, is still scratching her head, wondering why she didn’t figure out her sexual orientation while part of a student body filled with radical lesbian feminists. When not working or spending time with the woman she loves, Nikki is writing poetry and fiction and furthering her education online at the University of California San Diego. She is a Golden Crown Literary Society member, has a Facebook fan page at Nikki Busch Editing Services, can be found on Twitter @NikkiBuschEdit and via email: NBwritethink@gmail.com.
Ngaire Curtin
About the Poet and Artist: Ngaire
Curtin
Ngaire
Curtin is a Pointillist Artist and budding poet, who discovered her creative
talent while residing and working in the small seaside town of Greymouth in New
Zealand. Her initial artwork focused on the LGBTI community and issues
surrounding sexuality. While residing in Queensland, Australia, a later piece
of artwork was selected as one of twelve finalists in the Kenilworth, Maroochy
Mayoral Art Prize Competition. This encouraged the artist to continue with this
style and technique. Ngaire has contributed artwork and/or poetry for the Tulips Touching, Wet Violets, and Roses Red:
Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series, volumes 1 through 3. Her artwork has been
featured on the back covers of each of these volumes.
Kate Dana
About
the Poet: Kate Dana
Kate has been writing short stories
and poems since she was eight years old. Writing provided a healthy outlet for
the overwhelming emotions of living in a chaotic unstable home. After a long,
fulfilling career as a dental hygienist Kate went back to school in 2009 to
become a certified massage therapist and reiki practitioner, which she happily
discovered is exactly what she is meant to do. Working with hospice and elder
care are future dreams. Kate currently lives in Santa Cruz California with her
two Bichon Frise pups, Oliver and Toby Tyler- the “boysie boys.”
Jae Dee
About the poet: Jae Dee
Jae Dee
has been writing poetry since adolescence. Much of her work has been lost, but
these love poems at least have been rescued from obscurity. Some of her poems
were published in Wet Violets and Roses
Red: Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series, Volume 2 and 3. A number of additional
poems have been unearthed and will be added to the love poetry that is being
published in the Sappho’s Corner Poetry
Series. This will soon be published as The
Poetry of Jae Dee by UltraVioletLove Publishing.
Gloria Jean Dugger
About
the Poet: Gloria Jean Dugger
Since 1983, Gloria has called Glendale, Arizona her
home. She has traveled much of this beautiful country, and cherishes all of her
experiences. She has many talents, but this is her most personal. She is a
passionate romantic, both in writing style and in reality.
Published works include poems within:
Sappho's Corner Poetry Series, Volume 1-Tulips Touching, Volume 2-Wet
Violets, and Volume
3-Roses Red
Fictional short stories in small magazines, and
contest publications.
HDum
About
the Poet: Heidi Dum
Heidi grew up in the Willamette Valley
in the heart of Oregon. She currently lives just outside of Salem, Oregon in
the small town of Silverton. She received her bachelor’s degree in Health
Education in the late 1990’s from Western. She obtained her masters in teaching
from Oregon State University. She has completed a bachelor’s degree in graphic
design, web design in March of 2012 from Westwood College. Heidi grew up
writing both short stories and poetry, encouraged by her parents and teachers
alike. Over the years her writing has been influenced by the many varied
experiences in her life. She enjoys spending time in the outdoors, umpiring,
writing, teaching, hanging out with friends, and working with computers in a
multitude of facets.
Also by HDum:
Twilight
of the Dawn, And The Music Goes On, Two Bits Time: Poetry Through the Years (forthcoming), Contributing poet in Tulips Touching: Sappho’s Corner Poetry
Series, Volume 1 and Wet Violets:
Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series, Volume 2, and Roses Read: Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series, Volume 3.
Contact HDum :
hdum@amethystdreamsdesigns.com
www.amethystdreamspublishing.com
www.amethystdreamsdesigns.com
Cheri
Fry
About the Poet: Cheri Fry
Cheri Fry is published in Taj Mahal Review, Green Silk Journal, Parallel,
and Quills Poetry, and also on
the web site, PoetrySoup.com. She has also drawn since she was a child and has studied art and
design at various schools throughout the years. She mainly does flower illustrations as a theme, and has had showings of her multimedia art (tissue
paper and ink on glass). She is on Facebook
and is working on getting her website up and running. She is also working
towards compiling a manuscript of lesbian poetry, complete with illustrations,
which she plans to self publish in the future.
Her new book, "THE LOVE CHILDE WALLIS STERN: a Thinly Veiled Genre-Defying Faux Autobiographical Queer Bildungsroman," slated for publication in 2014 also by UltraVioletLove Publishing, has been hailed already as a "BREAK-OUT book" with several excerpts submitted for your delectation amongst the petals of our DAISIES. Ms. Stern is a professional ghostwriter, has been published under various pen names, and finally got nagged into overcoming her shyness and writing as herself, contributing to lesbian publications. Wallis Stern is very hopeful that her new writing will speak amply for itself and its own merits, and welcomes your friendship on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Elizabeth
Gajewski- Riggin
About
the Poet: Elizabeth Gajewski-Riggin
My name is Elizabeth Gajewski-Riggin.
Just call me Liz. I am of Cherokee and Polish descent. I went to Catholic
school for twelve years. I grew up in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. I now live in
Eagleville, Pennsylvania. I have three sons ages 28, 26, and 13. We share our
home with my beautiful girlfriend, Ree, the love of my life. We have one dog, a
Chihuahua named Pepe, and Tux, Diva, Cashmere, Suede, Jazmine, and Gizmo, our
six fun-loving cats. I just recently came out on September 22nd 2013. I finally
feel free and happy to be me. I wrote my first poem when I was eighteen in
1976, the year I graduated high school. Then I became more dedicated to writing
poems since the 90's. It is truly a wonderful way to express our feelings.
Lisa Hurt
About the Poet
· Lisa
Hurt grew up on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She spent the last twenty five
years building and creating her home “from the land” and Organic farm in
Poulsbo, Wa. She loves the outdoors and is deeply connected to the earth and
all her creatures. She is as a massage therapist, painting contractor and
carpenter. For fun she loves to read, bike, swim, fish, walk on the beach,
hike, and dabble in poetry and writing. She has a blog http://rainbowzen1.blogspot.com if you
want to know how it all began and where the journey has taken her.
Caren
Littman
About the Poet: Caren Littman
Caren Littman grew up in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania where she began writing poetry as a way to express her emotions.
Caren relocated to the warmth of South Florida where she and her dog
reside in the suburbs of Ft. Lauderdale. While she has a multitude of
friends, she is still searching for the woman of her dreams. While not
having lived in Philly for much of her adult life, she is still an avid Eagles
fan. In her spare time she enjoys playing softball, golfing, and has a
voracious appetite for reading.
Caren has
lost her fear of putting her poetry out there to be read by allowing Sappho’s
Corner to publish her poetry. Her published works include poems in Tulips Touching: Sappho’s Corner Poetry
Series, Volume 1, Wet Violets: Sappho's Corner Poetry Series, Volume 2, and Roses Read: Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series,
Volume 3.
Doreen Merriman
About
the Poet: Doreen Merriman
The
following poems were written on 7th November 2013 to commemorate the 9th
anniversary of the death of my partner and soulmate Ruth. For
five years we were inseparable. Knowing that she was terminally ill, I thought
I was prepared for
the inevitable but how wrong I was. For many years the music and poetry stopped
for me. Ruth was my inspiration and still is.
jaynes pehney
About
The Author: jaynes pehney
jaynes
pehney has poems in all three volumes in the Sapphos Corner Poetry Series: Tulips Touching, Wet Violets, and Roses Read. Anyone interested in
lesbian poetry or fiction can send me a Facebook friend request and then join
my Facebook group LesficREADER ; )
Mary Margaret Perry
About the Poet: Mary Margaret Perry
Mary is a Viet Nam Era Vet. She worked
for twenty years for the Department of Defense as a Fire Inspector/Firefighter
and was a Safety Director for a heavy highway construction firm. Mary
retired in October 2010. She has a 2nd-Degree Black belt in
Taekwondo. Her hobbies include hiking, biking, cooking, gardening, reading, and
writing. The loves of her life are her partner of 16 years and their dachshund
Ditto.
Mary has in the works a children’s
book called, Butter Bean and Peggy Pea
Get Fit. She had has her poems published in Roses Read: Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series Volume 3 and in the
e-magazine for writers Long Story Short. You
can contact Mary on Facebook. Her web page is called A Poet’s Journey. You can find it at: https://www.facebook.com/marymargaretperry.
Elaine Roth-Nichols
About the Poet: Elaine Roth-Nichols
Born in the 1950's in Germany, of Belgian and American heritage, Elaine Roth-Nichols lived abroad and around the U.S. until eventually settling near Nashville, Tennessee. She unapologetically came out "without a moment's hesitation" in 1973 after a lifetime of androgynous identity expression. She met the love of her life in 1988 and the couple finally married in 2009 on Cape Cod after 21 years together. The pair was included in the March 2009 issue of GO MAGAZINE'S ("America's Most Captivating Couples") and was featured in the September 2011 issue of 10,000 Couples, "I am the face of Marriage Equality: Elaine and Ramona Roth-Nichols" by John Szlachetka. Her interests include philosophy, music, the internet, gourmet cooking, antique hunting and Egyptian art. Her most treasured moments are spent at home with wife Ramona and their four cats and two dogs. Elaine is currently working on a semi-autobiographical project though there is no established timeline. "Writing should follow a path of natural progression." she says. Her philosophy has always been: If you are comfortable with your own personal identity, others will be as well.
Born in the 1950's in Germany, of Belgian and American heritage, Elaine Roth-Nichols lived abroad and around the U.S. until eventually settling near Nashville, Tennessee. She unapologetically came out "without a moment's hesitation" in 1973 after a lifetime of androgynous identity expression. She met the love of her life in 1988 and the couple finally married in 2009 on Cape Cod after 21 years together. The pair was included in the March 2009 issue of GO MAGAZINE'S ("America's Most Captivating Couples") and was featured in the September 2011 issue of 10,000 Couples, "I am the face of Marriage Equality: Elaine and Ramona Roth-Nichols" by John Szlachetka. Her interests include philosophy, music, the internet, gourmet cooking, antique hunting and Egyptian art. Her most treasured moments are spent at home with wife Ramona and their four cats and two dogs. Elaine is currently working on a semi-autobiographical project though there is no established timeline. "Writing should follow a path of natural progression." she says. Her philosophy has always been: If you are comfortable with your own personal identity, others will be as well.
Elaine Roth-Nichols’ published work includes being a contributing poet in Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series, Volume 1-3:
Tulips Touching, Wet Violets, and Roses
Read.
Leah Rouse
About the Poet: Leah Rouse
Leah Rouse lives in London, England
and has been writing poems for over four years. She takes her inspirations from
all over from the eye of the street and music too. She listens to a lot of
music and writes not just poetry but scripts and lyrics too. She is also
interested in singing, dancing, and cooking.
After
successfully publishing my first collection of lesbian love poems for Roses Read: Sappho’s Corner Poetry Series,
Volume 3, I am delighted to be in another collection, including a special
poem, (You're Amazing, You Know That Right,) I wrote for my girlfriend. I am
currently creating and producing my second film (part two of Don't Stop
Believing, a three part lesbian film about life after death). In my spare time
I make and create Word Patch Hats www.allroadsleadtoyou.me.uk
Wallis
Stern
About
the Poet: Wallis Stern
Wallis Stern is touted as a remarkably
talented Wordsmith, a highly inventive and wildly creative writer of Poetry and
Prose. Her early childhood was quite Dickensian but she began reading
spontaneously in her orphanage, which was her saving grace, and has been
reading and writing ever since. She is the only member of her entire adopted
family of Chasidic Jewish Holocaust Survivors and offspring who has ever
graduated High School, let alone gone to University. The greatest
"compliment" her rabbinical father ever paid her was, "Ach!
You’re so brilliant you should have been a boy!" so she felt oddly
hermaphroditic growing up as a Yeshiva Girl in Brooklyn since she apparently
had both female and male organs: a uterus and a BRAIN! Wallis escaped her
"Fiddler on the Roof" captivity by forging her father's signature on
college applications. Scholarships in hand, she ran away from home to New
Haven, CT, collecting several essentially useless degrees in Creative Writing,
Poetry, Theater Arts, and Linguistics, and teaching her own courses in Creative
Writing.
Her new book, "THE LOVE CHILDE WALLIS STERN: a Thinly Veiled Genre-Defying Faux Autobiographical Queer Bildungsroman," slated for publication in 2014 also by UltraVioletLove Publishing, has been hailed already as a "BREAK-OUT book" with several excerpts submitted for your delectation amongst the petals of our DAISIES. Ms. Stern is a professional ghostwriter, has been published under various pen names, and finally got nagged into overcoming her shyness and writing as herself, contributing to lesbian publications. Wallis Stern is very hopeful that her new writing will speak amply for itself and its own merits, and welcomes your friendship on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Brigitte Stolwijk
About
the Poet: Brigitte Stolwijk
Brigitte Stolwijk was born 20th of June
1968 in Amstelveen,The Netherlands.
She still lives there with her wife
and daughter. She has worked as a Security Officer for ten years. After
discovering poetry, she decided to write some herself. She is still developing
as a writer and she has not been a poet for that long. She uses everyday life
and people around her as her inspiration and to express her feelings. She had
never written poetry before. Now she writes a lot, not only love poems but also
other subjects too.
Past
Publishing Credits:
Wet Violets: Sappho’s
Corner Poetry Series, Volume 2
Roses Read: Sappho’s
Corner Poetry Series, Volume 3
Kieran York
About
the Poet: Kieran York
Kieran York authored the Royce Madison
mystery series, published by Third Side Press, Chicago. That includes: Timber City Masks, 1993; and Crystal Mountain Veils, 1995. Kieran
also is author of a collection of lesbian short stories titled, Sugar With Spice, 1989. Her romance,
published in 2012 was Appointment with a
Smile, and is a 2013 Lambda Award Finalist. Also published by Blue Feather
Books is her latest book, published in 2013, titled, Careful Flowers.
Kieran’s lesbian love poetry has been
published in the collection, Sappho’s
Corner Poetry Series: Wet Violets, Volume 2; and Roses Read, Volume 3, published by UltraVioletLove Publishing. Roses Read was an Amazon best seller,
and was named a 2013 GCLS Award Finalist in the poetry category.
Kieran’s blog is http://www.kieranyork.com. She has
written mainstream work including poetry and general fiction. Her journalism
career has been varied. She worked reporting, reviewing, and was a magazine
publisher for three years. She wrote and performed songs with a woman’s band,
has given numerous campus and coffeehouse poetry readings, and taught poetry
and creative writing workshops. She currently lives in the foothills of
Littleton, Colorado with her schnauzer, Clover.
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