My first poetry publication was in my community college magazine; then my upper-level university's journal. I then had a few poems published in journals, but not the "big" ones, although I did win a couple of first prizes, one for rhymed poetry in Writer's Digest's contest, 2010. I have one published collection (SORTING OUT DARKNESS, 1992). And I have an earnest hope to be lucky enough to publish a second. Luck, I believe, plays a big part in publishing our work: the right judge at the right time with the right selection of poems from us. That's why my discovering Sixfold excites me. What a brilliant idea, the concept fair as hell. - I live in northeast Pennsylvania, with three monitor-blocking cats and a multi-talent husband who keeps me laughing.