Bio

Award-winning poet Lois Marie Harrod's chapbook Furniture won the 2008 Grayson Press Poetry Prize Her chapbook Firmament was published by Finishing Line Press, 2007; her chapbook Put Your Sorry Side Out by Concrete Wolf, 2005. She won her third poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts 2003. Her other books include Spelling the World Backward (Palanquin Press, University of South Carolina Aiken, 2000); This Is a Story You Already Know (Palanquin Press, 1999) ; Part of the Deeper Sea (Palanquin Press, 1997); Every Twinge a Verdict (Belle Mead Press, 1987), Crazy Alice (Belle Mead Press, 1991) and a chapbook Green Snake Riding (New Spirit Press, 1994). Over 360 of her poems have appeared in literary journals and online magazines including American Poetry Review, Blueline, The MacGuffin, Salt, The Literary Review, Verse Daily and Zone3. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 7 times. A former high school English teacher, she presently supervises student teachers and teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey.