Raven Chronicles Literary Press nominated 6 poems & prose works for the 2019 Pushcart Prize, XLIV Edition. This is one of the nominated pieces:
I am not a hero nor am I someone who has the energy and drive to overcome any obstacle. I am neither beautiful nor athletic. I’m a decent cook and a terrible pianist. I don’t cheat on my husband or my taxes. I love my children.
I write fiction and non-fiction and poetry. I’ve been published in Newsweek. My novel can still be found on certain library shelves. I was writer-in-residence for Seattle University’s Creative Writing program. I have taught workshops at national conventions and Young Author conferences.
That is the external me.
Then there is the internal me. She is a woman who sits at the computer trying to remember if she wrote the poem on the screen or if she found it in a literary journal and copied it because she liked it and wanted to study the internal rhythms and external alliteration; a metaphor, perhaps, of her own life.
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