Shirley Glubka is the author of Green Surprise of Passion: Writings of a Trauma Therapist; All the Difference: poems of unconventional motherhood;Â Return to a Meadow, a novel; and, most recently, Echoes and Links: poems.
Shirley's poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as 2River View, Conditions, Feminist Studies, h.o.m.e. Words, Narramissic Notebook, Puckerbrush Review, Seems, Sinister Wisdom, and Sun Dog: the Southeast Review; and in these collections: Lesbians at Mid-life: the Creative Transition; Mothers Who Leave: the myth of women without their children; Women in Culture: a Women's Studies Anthology; and, under the name Shirley Starkweather, Naming: poems by 8 women.
She is a retired psychotherapist and lives in Prospect, Maine with her spouse, Virginia Holmes. She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1942.