Women’s History Month may be ending, but Yellow Arrow still has a lot to celebrate in April. Not only is it National Poetry Month, but our fifth birthday! In honor of both occasions, we’re hosting a fundraising Poetry Series: five Fridays for our Five years.
Our fourth event will feature six awesome writers who will share their work on April 23rd at 8:00 pm EDT for our West Coast event. To register, click here; you can also enjoy some incredible publication discounts (you must register before or at the same time) from publications that feature our included authors!
Take a look at each bio to find out more:
Chris Biles currently lives and works in Washington D.C. She enjoys playing with the light and the dark, and losing herself in music, anything outside, and some words here and there. Published by Exeter Publishing, Haunted Waters Press, Yellow Arrow Publishing, and FleasOnTheDog, find her at www.chrisbiles03.com / Instagram: @marks.in.the.sand
LynneAnne Forest is in her 80th year and a retired psychotherapist. She has written poems in the past that emerged from significant events. Recently she decided to honor her writing though formal study including workshops with poet Ellen Bass. Yellow Arrow Journal was her first publisher,
Hannah Rousselot is a French-American queer poet, author, and educator. She has two published works, Ocean Currents (Finishing Line Press) and Fragments of You (Kelsay Press). She reviews poetry books on hannahrousselot.com and is the host of Poetry Aloud.
Naomi is author of 4 poetry collections: Only The Raw Hands Are Heaven (WWPH), In Yolo County, and She Was a Cathedral ( Finishing Line ) and Made of Air (Kelsay) Her poems and fiction have been published in VQR, Poet Lore, Sojourners, and many others. She works as a magazine editor and lives on the banks of Four Mile Run in S. Arlington, VA.
Sandra is a Minnesota writer so trees and lakes populate her poems. Retired from forty years as a psychotherapist she hopes that observation, listening and compassion also inform her work. She has been published in numerous lit magazines and anthologies (including Yellow Arrow!)
Patti Ross graduated from Washington, DC's Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts and The American University. After graduation, she had a brief career in the arts and several of her journalist pieces were published in the Washington Times and the Rural America newspapers. Patti has rediscovered her love of writing and is sharing her voice as the spoken word artist "little pi. She currently serves on the Board for the Maryland Writers Association, as well as several other non-profit organizations in the Baltimore region. Patti lives in Ellicott City, MD.